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  1. 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.

    • 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...

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  2. Ahand­drawn map of the Mauthausen ConcentrationCamp System is part of the “Cohen Report” doc­ umentingalleged war crimes at Mauthausen and 13 of its sub­camps. The report was compiled on site by Maj. Eugene S. Cohen of the 514th Quartermaster Corps between May 6 and June 15, 1945. The

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  3. 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 ...

  4. Mauthausen camp quarry. A view of the quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor. Austria, 1938-1945. Item View.

  5. 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.

  6. Nov 24, 2020 · Mauthausen Concentration Camp or ’KZ Mauthausen’ was a vast Nazi concentration camp in northern Austria. History of Mauthausen Concentration Camp. First established in 1938, Mauthausen Concentration Camp was built through the slave labour of prisoners from another such camp, Dachau.

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