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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
- Images of Suffering and Cruelty at Mauthausen
- From A Flour Sack to A Climate-Controlled Museum
- The Political Prisoners' Dangerous Mission
- Family May Never Know All The Album's Secrets
The album began with images of stone buildings, Austrian countryside, visiting dignitaries and Nazis in uniform. As it progressed, the photos became more disturbing. They showed images of dead bodies piled up, children in freezing conditions behind barbed wire, a man, dead in the snow wearing only a thin camp uniform with no shoes. The album had be...
Ana Ivanovic, Ms Ciufo's aunt, didn't want to keep the gruesome album her husband had left behind, so it stayed in a calico flour sack inside a cupboard in a family member's NSW home. "Every now and then I'd ask if I could have a look, but then we forgot about it for many years," Ms Ciufo says. After a death in the family, the album in the flour sa...
The photo album is a remarkable testimony to the bravery of a handful of cunning prisoners who worked in the camp's photographic lab. The Nazis had directed prisoners to make five copies of the album, to send to various generals so they could be used to oil the Nazi propaganda machine. A sixth, clandestine copy was made by the prisoners and smuggle...
Ms Ciufo never met her uncle, but remembers family members speaking fondly of the amateur painter. Despite the hardship he endured, he was a playful man, known by the nickname "Bobo". Born in Zagreb, he survived terrible treatment by the Nazis, including medical experimentation while he was in Mauthausen. His family may never know how he came to ow...
- Alice Moldovan
German civilians are forced to view bodies of victims of a death march. African American soldiers of the US Army escort German civilians through a site where camp prisoners were massacred during a death march from Buchenwald. Such tours forced Germans to recognize the crimes committed by the SS.
Photo Exhibit by Jack Hazut. Concentration Camps Photographs: Table of Contents | Auschwitz-Birkenau | Dachau. Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.
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.
- Malloryk
Entire reel consists of a list of Mauthausen victims compiled by an unidentifed postwar agency, with birth date and place and date of death given for each where known.
The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
