deaths
October 21, 1944
Alois Kayser, German-French missionary (born 1877)
Alois Kayser
Alois Kayser was a German-French Roman Catholic missionary who spent almost forty years on Nauru and wrote a Nauruan grammar. In 1943, he was deported along with Pierre Clivaz, a Swiss missionary, as well as most of the Nauruan population, by the Japanese to Truk Atoll in Micronesia, where he died.