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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.
- 13-Year-Old Survivor of The Mauthausen Concentration Camp
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- 13-Year-Old Survivor of The Mauthausen Concentration Camp
156 photographs documenting the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp.
- Images of Suffering and Cruelty at Mauthausen
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- 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
Mauthausen, one of the worst of the Nazi concentration camps, was liberated by the American 11th Armored Division on May 5, 1945. May 1, 2020. Above image: Former prisoners greeting American forces in Mauthausen in May 1945. Courtesy of Cpl Donald R. Ornitz, US Army.
- Malloryk
Emaciated survivors in the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp suck on sugar cubes provided by US soldiers upon the liberation of the camp. Photograph taken by Signal Corps photographer J Malan Heslop .
Apr 28, 2022 · The Mauthausen Memorial is showing 40 of these photographs, including 19 portraits of people who survived the Mauthausen concentration camp system. Around half of the witnesses are of Jewish descent, others are Roma and Sinti, Jehovah’s Witnesses, prisoners of war, former political prisoners and people persecuted as ‘asocial’.
The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018). Based on real events, Francisco Boix is the Spanish photographer and inmate of Mauthausen who saved thousands of pieces of photographic evidence of the horrors committed inside the Austrian concentration camp's walls. [99] Resistance at Mauthausen (2021). [100]
