1914–2011
Hans Maršálek (19 July 1914 â 9 December 2011) was an Austrian typesetter, political activist, detective, historian, and spy for the Czechoslovak secret police.
Hans Maršálek (19 July 1914 â 9 December 2011) was an Austrian typesetter, political activist, detective, historian, and spy for the Czechoslovak secret police. A devout socialist and active in the resistance, he was arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp. After the war, he joined the Austrian political police and was instrumental in tracking down and convicting numerous Nazi criminals. He also became the main chronicler of the camp's history, helped establish the Mauthausen Memorial Museum, and published several books. Jan Marsalek, a fugitive former businessman and confirmed spy operative for Russia, is his grandson.
Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.
Ruth Maier (10 November 1920 in Vienna, Austria â 1 December 1942 in Auschwitz, German-occupied Poland) was an Austrian woman whose diaries describing her experiences of the Holocaust in Austria and Norway were published in 2007; reviews described her as "Norway's Anne Frank.".