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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...
- Alice Moldovan
Click a photo to view here: On August 8, 1938, just a few weeks after the Nazi occupation of Austria, prisoners from the Dachau, concentration camp near Munich, were transferred to the Austrian town of Mauthausen, near Linz. Mauthausen Map – Home | Introduction | Credits. Rock staircase at the quarry. The rock quarry.
#TitleDescription1Rock staircase at the quarry.2The rock quarry.3Top of the rock quarry.4The rock quarry.The perpetrators used these locations for a range of purposes, including forced labor, detention of people deemed to be "enemies of the state," and mass murder. Millions of people suffered and died or were killed. Among these sites was the Mauthausen camp. More information about this image.
KL central camp is located some 3 km east of the KL Gusen I & II camps. Today it is a museum to commemorate the 120.000 victims that died in a system of 49 different camps. The biggest group of victims (some 40.000 out of them) died at the bigger Gusen camps some kilometers away. In the final phase of the war, the stone-quarries and most of the ...
Former prisoners, visitors and liberators attend on May 9, 2010 at the Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen, ceremonies marking the Nazi defeat in...
