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Mauthausen After – It’s So Quiet Now
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
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Mauthausen Stairs of Death – Wiener Graben
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...
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Mauthausen Gas Chamber
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...
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Mauthausen Wailing Wall
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 ArchivesNewly arrived prisoners were subjected to an initiation ritual: standing at attention...
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Mauthausen Bunker
It is hard to imagine anything worse than being thrown into a concentration camp.But even in Mauthausen there was a deeper hell, an isolation unit.Here, in what was already the end of the line,...
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Mauthausen Commandant – Franz Ziereis
Photo credit: Andras Tsagatakis Collection, USHMM.Mauthausen Commandant Franz Ziereis allowed his eleven year old son to shoot prisoners with a rifle from their front porch.Ziereis was wounded by Allied soldiers and subsequently died some...
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Mauthausen Concentration Camp Photos
Click a photo to view here: On August 8, 1938, just a few weeks after the...
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Concentration Camp Photos | Birkenau | Mauthausen | Auschwitz
Alan Jacobs concentration camp photos bring you inside the camps in recent times, along with photos, drawings, and art from the past.Birkenau 1996
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