Mauthausen

New arrivals at the “Klagemauer” (wailing wall) after a week long trip in open railway cars. Date: 1943-1944 Photo credit: National Archives, USHMM Photo Archives Newly arrived prisoners were subjected to an initiation ritual: standing at attention...

Prisoners were forced to climb the 186 steps of the Wiener Graben with large blocks of granite on their backs. Often the blocks would fall, crushing limbs and bodies of those following, sometimes killing. The...

On receiving a large block of marble from the quarry at Cararra, Michelangelo remarked that the sculpture he planned already existed within. All he had to do was take away what wasn’t necessary. Here, near...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Map |  List of Photos | Credits Mauthausen Photos # Title Description 1 The Stairs of Death Rock staircase at the quarry. 2 The Rock Quarry The rock quarry. 3 The Parachute Jump Top of the rock quarry. 4 Then and Now: Wiener Graben The rock quarry. 5 Ghosts Rocks at the quarry. 6 The...