Gusen camp

Identifier
irn1000795
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2010
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Silent
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

(B-1222) KZ Gusen, Austria, May 11, 1945. MSs, CUs, large pile of bodies and individual bodies at Gusen, a sub-camp of Mauthausen. MSs, CUs, weak, emaciated prisoners wandering in the camp. CUs, starved prisoners. MSs, inmates of women's section. CUs, starved, naked prisoners being cared for by other inmates. MSs, CUs, German SS troops pulling carts containing bodies. VS, bodies being gathered throughout camp area and loaded onto wagons. MSs, German civilians digging graves. HLS, pan, camp area showing barracks, barbed wire fences and guard towers. VS, liberated prisoners crowded in open field, cooking and eating around open fires. CUs, ovens in crematorium. MS, CU, bodies being loaded into wagons.

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