Photo credit: Mauthausen Museum Archives,
USHMM Photo Archives Black and white photo taken just after liberation of
the camp on May 8, 1945 by American Gen. George Patton's
troops.
Color photo taken
June 1996.
Today
the quarry where so many died terrible deaths is quiet
and still but for the occasional gentle breeze off the
granite walls, or the hushed voices of tourists, or a
parent summoning a child, or even a survivor describing
what it was like here... then.