Romano Defranceschi
Romano Defranceschi, 1921. Mauthausen. Every mention of this name in the archive — 2 across 5 pages.
Born 26 March 1921, prisoner 80140 at Mauthausen — a personal file (1.1.26.3) and a Häftlingspersonalkarte received from Yad Vashem (1.1.26.8). The file gives no birthplace. Arolsen Archives online collections, read 21 September 2026 under the -schi spelling, which this archive had not tried until the service came back up. (doc)
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.
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The People
…of fasting and isolation every two months February 1890 Imprisoned Castle of Gradisca Released 22 February 1892 Died 27 October 1953 Venice, in exile His baptism is in the indexed Poreč register: Camillo Romano Defranceschi, born 3 August 1868, of Carlo Defranceschi and Maria Michelcich. Every printed account of him gives his mother as Maria Micheli. The register gives Michelcich — a Croatian surname in <em-ić</em, written the Austrian way. Somewhere between the…
Register
…6YB5-8XL5 Angelo Vittorio Franceschina Franceschina M y b. 1868 Giovanni Franceschina Madalenna Luisa Conte lead 6YB5-N4WF Camillo Romano Defranceschi Defranceschi M y b. 3 Aug 1868 Carlo Defranceschi Maria Michelcich in 6B47-CCDQ Catharina Surname not indexed F y b. 20 Dec…
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