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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.
- 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
Feb 5, 2021 · Over the course of 60-hour live stream, a digital ‘Wall of Names’ is also created on the Internet. Every day from 8 pm to midnight, live cameras will stream the large-scale projection via social media platforms.
On 5 May 1945 soldiers from the US Army liberated Mauthausen Concentration Camp. The open camp gates became a symbol of freedom, peace and the dawning of a new and better age. Now, 75 years after the liberation of Mauthausen Concentration Camp, we want to send a clear signal.
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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.
Female survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp lie in wooden bunks in the hospital barracks. Prisoners were forced to climb the 186 steps of the Wiener Graben with large blocks of granite on their backs.
