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Explore photographs showing the Mauthausen camp, personnel, and conditions. An estimated 197,464 prisoners passed through the Mauthausen concentration camp system between August 1938 and May 1945. At least 95,000 people were killed there.
Jul 5, 2021 · With a special focus and an impressive video projection entitled "#eachnamematters", from 4-6 May 2021 the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial will give the thousands of victims a face and contrast the sheer number of 90,000 with actual names and individual life stories.
The Mauthausen concentration camp was established shortly after the German annexation of Austria (1938). Prisoners in the camp were forced to perform crushing labor in a nearby stone quarry and, later, to construct subterranean tunnels for rocket assembly factories.
Getting a rare inside glimpse of the Nazi concentration-camp system, he endured a horrendous month in Mauthausen before the liberation. The arrival of the Americans saved Taylor from certain execution.
Mauthausen was a German Nazi concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly 20 kilometres (12 mi) east of Linz), Upper Austria. It was the main camp of a group with nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany. [2][3] The three Gusen concentration camps in and around the village of St ...
Oct 5, 2021 · The Mauthausen Memorial Virtual Guide goes online. A new module on the Gusen concentration camp makes its architectural remains visible. A module for the Mauthausen Memorial offers a self-guided audio tour. Further modules on the camps’ regional environment are in progress.
Access to the memorial site is free of charge and possible without registration. You will find an overview of tours and educational offers including rates below. All programmes are free for former Mauthausen concentration camp prisoners and their families - Please register in advance.
