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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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- 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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Survivors of the women's camp ... Mauthausen Concentration Camp Images (50 of 60)
Women and children in Mauthausen. Women's camp at Mauthausen after liberation. Although the Mauthausen camp complex was mostly a labour camp for men, a women's camp was opened in Mauthausen, in September 1944, with the first transport of female prisoners from Auschwitz.
Female prisoners in an infirmary camp barrack after liberation, May 1945 (photo credits: US Holocaust Memorial Museum) For a long time, only men were imprisoned in Mauthausen and its subcamps. The Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp was designated for female prisoners.
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This photograph shows some of the 190 granite blocks donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by the Mauthausen Public Memorial in Austria. The Nazis established the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1938 near an abandoned stone quarry.
