Take pause from your busy life for just a few moments and try to imagine what it must have been like to know this was the last room you would ever be in or...

This window looks into the the hall at one end of the bunker, the isolation unit. If the Mauthausen camp was the end of the line, this cell block was the end of the line...

Mauthausen - The Rock Quarry Human beings labor in order to improve their lot, to enhance the quality of existence. The products of this labor usually help make things easier by creating a safer and more...

It is always surprising to see the degree of care and meticulous attention to detail, even elegance, the SS exacted in their goal of surrounding, punishing and killing innocent people. This latch is on the...

Often Prisoners were made to run up and down the stairs till most were dead. Sometimes the remaining ones would be made to jump off the top of the quarry. SS humor coined it "the...

Prisoners were marched along this route through the town of Mauthausen from the train depot to the camp of the same name. Often children would stand at the side of the road, jeer and thrown...

I don’t remember just where in the camp I found this but it seems to reveal just what it was that walking into a this camp did to me. It is as if my heart...

Six thousand souls waited in this courtyard for 24 hours. In the end, about 140 of them were dead. Photo credit: Franz Amicale Collection, USHMM Photo Archives Date: Jul 1941 < Mauthausen Experiments | Mauthausen Commandant> Mauthausen Map – Home | Introduction | Credits