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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.
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.
View photos connected to the experiences of women during the Holocaust, as well as the important role women played in resistance activities.
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.
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.
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Eva Clarke was one of only three babies born in Mauthausen concentration camp who survived past liberation. She was born on 29 April 1945, just a day after the Nazis had destroyed the camp's gas chambers and less than a week before it's liberation.
After the outbreak of war, people from across Europe were deported to Mauthausen, which gradually developed into a system of several interconnected camps. During this phase, Mauthausen and Gusen were the concentration camps with the harshest imprisonment conditions and the highest mortality.
