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  1. In September 2017 I visited the Mauthausen Memorial (former Mauthausen Concentration Camp) near Linz, Austria. I’ve mixed my video footage with the official ...

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    • Maxim Chornyi
  2. Mauthausen was a 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...

  3. Nov 2, 2022 · Thousands of prisoners were beaten to death, shot, murdered by lethal injection, or frozen to death. At least 10,200 inmates were murdered in the gas chamber at the main camp, in Gusen, or at ...

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    • Wanderer Bell
    • 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
  4. 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.

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  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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