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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.
156 photographs documenting the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp.
- Francesc Boix: Early Life
- Spanish Civil War
- Francesc Boix Exile
- World War Two
- Mauthausen
- Anna Pointner
- Americans to The Rescue
- Post-World War Two
Francesc Boix Campo was born in the district of Poble Sec in Barcelona, on the 31st of August 2020. He grew up in Poble Sec, close to their tailoring shop ‘Boix’, with his two sisters, his father Bartolomé Boix Eixarch and his mother Ana Campo Agustin. Francesc developed his love for photography through his dad and in 1934 he starts working as an i...
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he joined Las Juventudes Socialistas Unificadas (JSU/ Unified Socialist Youth). He then joined the magazine Juliolas a reporter until he enlisted as a photographer with the 30th Division in the Aragón -Segre front with the Spanish Republic.
At the end of the Civil War, he was exiled and sought refuge in Le Vernet d’Ariege and Septfonds (France). He lived in an internment camp until he left and formed part of the 28th Foreign Workers’ Company. This company was linked to the V Corps of Engineers. Their work was the fortification and protection of defensive lines in the Vosges area, near...
After the Fall of France, most Nazisdeported most Spaniards to camps or slaved them through labour as per Organisation Todt. 5,000 Spaniards died in combat. The Nazis sent an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 Spaniards to Mauthausen. Most of them died in Gusen and the Hartheim Castle as well as Mauthausen. The Germans captured Francesc Boix in the North of...
Spanish prisoners were known in the camps for their survival techniques. Other nationalities that gathered in the camps with the Spanish republicans, admired them. They admired how theRotspaniers (Red Spaniards) avoided being noticed by the kaposand the SS in camps. Most of the time this saved them from death. The majority of Spanish prisonerswere ...
Boix and Garcia had the help of a group of Spanish prisoners. These served time on a probation regime, which allowed them to visit the village of Mauthausen without raising suspicion. There they got to know Anna Pointner. Anna helped prisoners during the war by throwing food over the fence. She also was key in taking care of members of the youth gr...
Francesc Boix was there when the Americans entered the camp. Francesc Boix took dozens of photos of the first hours after the German and Austrian guard fled. After gaining freedom, many of them remained in the field for several weeks. They did not know what to do or where to go due to their stateless status.
After the liberation of Mauthausen, Boix began working as a graphic reporter in France. He worked for the press near the French Communist Party such as L’Humanité, Ce Soir, and Regards. That is where he showed the pictures for the first time. These pictures called the attention of thousands. Eventually, this would lead Boix to be part of the witnes...
Apr 28, 2019 · The photos of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria were meant to be propaganda, but one copy, smuggled out of the camp by Spanish anti-fascists, was used as evidence at the Nuremberg trials after the war. That album has been donated to a museum in Sydney, but the story of how it ended up in Australia remains mysterious.
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Österreich, Mauthausen, Konzentrationslager. Exterior of a stone guard tower at Mauthausen, a Nazi concentration camp in operation during World War II. Over 100,000 prisoners died while confined...
Sep 6, 2021 · Media in category "Liberation of the KZ Mauthausen main camp". The following 19 files are in this category, out of 19 total. Liberated prisoners in the Mauthausen concentration camp near Linz, Austria, give rousing welcome to Cavalrymen of... - NARA - 531293.tif 3,000 × 2,463; 7.05 MB.
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Synopsis. During World War II, the photographer Francisco Boix and other Spanish Republican prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp, where 120,000 people died, managed not only to survive their indescribable experience, but also, after the war, to reveal to the world what really happened in that hell, saving from destruction thousands of ...
