1. Mauthausen “A Protective Detention Camp” Public Memorial and Museum
Established by the Austrian Federal Government.
Opened May, 1970
Admittance Feb. 1-Dec. 16

2. Most of Mauthausen’s 9,000 camp guards were members of the SS (Schutz-Staffel) the Nazi special police force.
Their primary job was to guard the camp for the Gestapo and carry out mass executions of Jews and Slavs. Anyone putting on an SS uniform sold himself to crime.
On May 3, 1945, approximately 65,000 men and 1,700 women were official inmates of Mauthausen.
More than 15,000 souls also lived there, unregistered.
This included 37 Americans.
US soldiers liberated about 81,000 men, women and children on May 5, 1945.

3. Memorials of the Nations
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame.
Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart.
Blessed is the heart with strength to stop its beating for honor's sake.
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Hannah Senesh

4. “If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering.
“Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.
“Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.”
Viktor Frankl

5. Spanish Republicans (foreground) Czechoslovakia (left)

6. Yugoslavia
These 30,000 souls who sleep among the trees will wake – Open an eye – And because they see – A lot –They’ll fall asleep again Hannus Hachenburg

7. Bulgaria “One spark is hidden in the stronghold of my heart
One little spark, but it is all mine;
I borrowed it from no one, nor did I steal it
For it is of me, and within me.”
Bialik

8. (Former) German Democratic Republic
This tribute primarily honors those women destroyed by the camps.

9. May the living learn from the fate of the dead.
Italy’s Memorial
May the living learn from the fate of the dead.

10. Jewish Memorial 72% of Europe’s Jews were killed
Poland: 2.8 million
Soviets: 1.7 million
Rumania: 425,000
Hungary: 200,000
Czech: ,000
France: ,000
Germany: 170,000
Lithuania: 135,000
Holland: ,000
Latvia: ,000
Belgium: ,000
Greece: ,000
Yugo: ,000
Austria: ,000
Italy: ,000
Bulgaria: ,000

11. "Without remembrance, there can be no future.” Primo Levi

13. History
I visited the Mauthausen public memorial and museum in Aug and in June I took most of these photos at that time.
The information comes from pamphlets that I purchased at the site.
For this PowerPoint, I have added photos and archived materials from Remember.org and the Holocaust Memorial Museum
I have also used photos and information from:
Alan Jacobs, a psychotherapist, author and independent researcher on issues related to genocide and the abuse of power. His film, which uses SS photos and survivors’ words and art , is used in universities, professional conferences and cultural centers.
Scott Sakansky
Krysia Jacobs, Brave New Web