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Anton Defrančeški of Gologorica (1909–1944)

Anton Defrančeški of Gologorica (1909–1944), 1909–1944. Gologorica. Every mention of this name in the archive — 1 across 3 pages.

PlaceGologorica

Years1909–1944

ParishGologorica

Found inRead off the register

What the archive knows

He was born in the parish this archive begins in, and he died at Dachau. Museum of Genocide Victims, Belgrade — the Yugoslav victims' census, record 2462025028:

field	as the register gives it
Ime / Prezime	Anton Defrančeški
Roditelj	Anton
Godina rođenja	1909
Mesto rođenja	Gologorica (opština Pazin)
Mesto boravka 6. aprila 1941	Gologorica
Nacionalnost	Hrvat
Godina stradanja	15.07.1944
Mesto stradanja	Dachau
Okolnost stradanja	logor — a camp
Učinilac zločina	nemci

(doc for the record; the identification with this archive's families is not made — see below.) ⚠ Gologorica is the origin parish of the direct line, and on 6 April 1941 — the day the Axis invaded Yugoslavia — he was still living in it. He was thirty-two. He was dead at Dachau three years and three months later. ⚠ This archive does not yet say who he was to the rest of it. His father was also Anton. The direct line's Anton Rudolf Defranceski was born at Klenovica in 1890 and died in 1943 — a different man, and the coast rather than the hill. Whether this Anton descends from the Gologorica household the archive already holds is a question for the Gračišće and Gologorica registers, not for a victims' index. (open.) Found 29 September 2026, on a database this archive had named as an unopened route two weeks earlier and not opened. --- 29 September 2026 — Arolsen was searched for him, and the man who looked like him is somebody else. Item 160 asked the obvious question: Arolsen holds the Dachau registers, so a man who died in that camp on a stated date should be in them. He is not — and proving that took disproving a near-perfect false match. What Arolsen offers at first look. A person record: «DEFRANCESCHI, ANTONIO — 31 January 1909 — prisoner 8165», with a personal file at Natzweiler. Same surname, same birth year, the Nazi camp system. It would have been very easy to write him up as this man. ⚠ The file is a cross-reference card and nothing else. Ref 01012902 008.453: an ITS Ersatzkarte reading «DEFRANCESCHI, Antonio 31.1.1909 — see: DEFRANCESCO», recto only, verso blank. The index entry is the archive's own name-authority work, not a document about a person. Following it to the real file settles it, and settles it against. «DEFRANCESCO, ANTONIO, born 31.1.1909 at MONCALVO» — Moncalvo is in Piedmont, two hundred miles from Istria, and the birthplace is written on four separate documents: the Dachau file card (T/D 400385, prisoner 98542/64488), the «Sch.It.» arrival card of 28 February 1944, the transfer letter, and the death report. > «Abgang durch Tod!» — Konzentrationslager Dachau, Häftlingskrankenbau, 7 February 1945. «Defrancesco Antonio, Block 30, Nr. 98542, geboren 31.1.09 zu Moncalvo … Gestorben: 7. Februar 1945 um 6.45 Uhr», diagnosis myocarditis. So the two men differ in every respect that matters.

	this page	the Arolsen man
surname	Defrančeški	Defrancesco
born	1909, Gologorica	31 Jan 1909, Moncalvo
died	15 July 1944	7 February 1945
source	Belgrade victims' census	Dachau camp records

They share a birth year and a camp. That is all. (doc for the disproof.) ⚠ One detail of the Arolsen man is worth recording even though he is not ours, because it is the thing that made him look right: his committing authority was Sipo Trieste, and the Dachau entry register gives his nationality as «ITALIAN, YUGOSLAVIAN» — markers of the Adriatic Littoral, not of Piedmont. This archive notes the oddity and does not resolve it; the birthplace is written four times and governs. So Anton Defrančeški of Gologorica is not in Arolsen under any spelling tested — Defranceschi (38 people), Defranceski (79), Defrancesco (8), and none born 1909 at an Istrian place. The Belgrade census remains the only record of him this archive has found.

No family is drawn for this name, and no record stands behind it. This archive has not placed it in a household and holds no indexed entry for it — the name reached this project through a chart, a narrative source or the family tree, and everything it does hold is below. The Register is where a record would appear if one turned up.

The same name, written another way

This archive holds 1 other page under what Say Your Name reconciles as the same given name in another language — a Latin register, a Venetian clerk, a Croatian village, a Hungarian office. They are not merged and none of them is claimed to be this person: a shared name is not a shared identity, and the archive will not join one to the other by machine. It is here so that a reader looking for a man the records called Josephus can see where they wrote him Josip.

Antonius Franciscus Defranceschi

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…are not on FamilySearch and need a letter to DAPA or Poreč — and for Kovačina it is the unread CM/1 file 32110000 058.158, «and of further persons». n blocked David 2026-09-29 Anton Defrančeški of Gologorica died at Dachau — is he ours, and is he in Arolsen? src:src/a-database-named-as-a-route-two-we-da2ba9 src:src/a-near-perfect-match-at-arolsen-di-dc5421 src:src/the-gologorica-baptisms-of-1909-ar-9246fe…

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