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Heinrich Himmler visiting Mauthausen in June 1941. Himmler is talking to Franz Ziereis, camp commandant, with Karl Wolff on the left and August Eigruber on the right.. On 9 August 1938, prisoners from Dachau concentration camp near Munich were sent to the town of Mauthausen in Austria, to begin building a new slave labour camp. [6]
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...
Mauthausen concentration camp (5 C, 18 P, 7 F) Pages in category "Nazi concentration camps in Austria" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
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Austria is a member of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. While many cities in Austria have constructed memorials to the victims of the Holocaust (see Monument to the Victims of the Holocaust in Vienna), a lack of specificity, for example the actual names of victims not being included, has also been criticised until recently. On ...
Royallieu-Compiègne internment camp memorial [38] Camp des Milles memorial (Aix-en-Provence) [39] Vélodrome d’Hiver memorial (Paris) [40] Memorial Museum to the Children of Vel d'Hiv [41] European Centre of Deported Resistance Members and Struthof Museum at the former Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp [42]
Since 2007, March of Life events have been held in hundreds of cities in more than 20 countries, where Holocaust survivors and descendants of Nazis visit concentration camp sites and mass graves ...
According to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, there were 23 main concentration camps (German: Stammlager), of which most had a system of satellite camps. [1] Including the satellite camps, the total number of Nazi concentration camps that existed at one point in time is at least a thousand, although these did not all exist at the same time.