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Mauthausen concentration camps liberation forced labor. 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.
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- 13-Year-Old Survivor of The Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Feb 25, 2019 · The Mauthausen concentration camp was one of the largest of its kind during World War II, where almost 320,000 inmates died from either extreme slave labor or inside a gas chamber—and The...
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.
Based on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Mar Targarona
- 2018-10-26
THE PHOTOGRAPHER OF MAUTHAUSEN tells the story of one man's heroic efforts to make the Nazis accountable for their crimes. Mauthausen, a concentration camp in Austria during WWII, housed an assortment of prisoners, 7,000 of whom were Spain's homegrown rebels who had fought and lost in the war against Spanish dictator Generalissmo Francisco Franco.
A relatively large collection of original documents created by the camp administration has survived from the Mauthausen concentration camp. Despite the destruction of these documents of mass murder ordered by the SS, numerous important sources were saved from destruction, primarily by the prisoners themselves.
The exhibition ‘The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938–1945’ offers an overview of the history of the Mauthausen concentration camp and its subcamps. It is located in a historical camp building, the former ‘Krankenrevier’ or ‘infirmary’, where sick prisoners were treated from summer 1944 onwards.
