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Current opening hours. Monday to Sunday 9:00 am – 5:30 pm (last entry 4:45 pm) Guided tours in English for individual visitors in July and August: daily at 1:00 pm (advance booking recommended) July: every Friday at 1:00 pm in Spanish.
From 1938 to 1945, the Mauthausen concentration camp was at the centre of a system of over 40 subcamps and was the main site of political, social and racist persecution by the National Socialist regime on Austrian territory.
Mauthausen was one of the first massive concentration camp complexes in Nazi Germany, and the last to be liberated by the Allies. The Mauthausen main camp is now a museum.
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.
Opening times. 01.03.–26.10.: daily, 09:00 am to 05:30 pm (last entry 4:45 pm) 27.10.–29.02.: Tuesday to Sunday, 09:00 am to 03:45 pm (last entry 03:00 pm), closed Mondays. Closed: Christmas (24.12.–26.12.), New Year's Eve/New Year's Day (31.12.–01.01.)
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.
Visitor Information. How to get here. Address. KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen | Mauthausen Memorial. Erinnerungsstrasse 1. 4310 Mauthausen, Austria. Tel: +43 7238 2269-0. By public transport. Train: Railway Station Mauthausen (Distance from Memorial approx. 4 km) Continue by bus (lines 360 and 361):
Mauthausen-Gusen was a collection of Nazi concentration camps located around the small Austrian town of Mauthausen, approximately 20 km east of Linz. The main camp was established shortly after Austria's Anschluss and evolved into one of the most notorious concentration camps.
The exhibition contains artefacts from the former concentration camp, collected from all over Europe or discovered during building works to create the visitor centre. The exhibition also features 20 video clips from interviews with camp survivors.
On January 1, 1945, the Mauthausen camp system had 73,351 prisoners, 959 of them women. At this time Mauthausen incarcerated more male prisoners than any other concentration camp system in Nazi Germany, and had the third largest total prisoner population, behind Buchenwald and Gross-Rosen.
