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 Holocaust Timeline: The Camps
There were concentration camps, forced labor camps, extermination or death camps, transit camps, and prisoner-of-war camps.
, one of the first Nazi concentration camps, opened in March 1933, and at first interned only known political opponents of the Nazis: Communists, Social Democrats, and others who had been condemned in a court of law.
Camps were an essential part of the Nazis' systematic oppression and mass murder of Jews, political adversaries, and others considered socially and racially undesirable.
www.fcit.usf.edu /holocaust/timeline/camps.htm   (1176 words)

  
 Hundred's of Links's to Jewish Holocaust with thousands of links to Jewish everything worldwide...
Mauthausen Concentration Camp - A comprehensive overview of the Mauthausen camp
Bergen-Belsen DP Camp - After liberation, a camp for displaced persons was established near the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
Priests of Dachau - The Dachau concentration camp was the first established to hold political prisoners.
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 KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN Feedback
He was a Major and 2nd in command of his Battalion on May 5, 1945 when it was part of the task force which liberated Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps.
I was at Camp Mauthausen - Camp Gusen 8 May 1945 with the 131 Evac Hospital SM and I believe I saw Franz Ziereis at Camp Gusen hung on a fence...
After a week freeing the concentration camps he was a changed man. He lost all interest in the military and any form of violence.
www.gusen.org /feedback.htm   (5769 words)

  
 Glossary of People: Si
However, he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1940 and sent to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
At Mauthausen Šik’s fellow inmates included Antonín Novotný, the future president of Czechoslovakia who was succeded by the leader of the Prague Spring Alexander Dubček, and Dubcek’s father, Stefan.
The connections that Šik made at Mauthausen proved useful in his post-war political career.
www.marxists.org /glossary/people/s/i.htm   (861 words)

  
 Project Page Archive 2000-2001
Facts about three concentration camps are on this Web page.
- choose one of Hitler’s concentration camps and report on that camp specifically.
Concentrate mainly on his heroic efforts to save the Jews- but give us in inside look of the man.
www.infotaft.marioncity.k12.oh.us /archive.html   (3949 words)

  
 Gusen/Bergkristall
Inmates from the nearby Mauthausen camp were moved to a satellite camp adjacent to the village of Gusen, where they worked in a stone quarry.
Gusen Concentration Camp Memorial, at the site of the KZ-Gusen I crematorium.
Plans are in place to eventually open part of the Kellerbau tunnel system to the public, and the Gusen I camp crematorium is open as a public memorial.
www.thirdreichruins.com /gusen.htm   (3949 words)

  
 KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN Louis Haefliger & Al Kosiek
Both man have to be mentioned along with the liberation of the KZ Mauthausen and KZ Gusen Concentration Camps because of risking their lives and careers for the liberation of some 40.000 inmates in that camps in May 1945.
While the liberation of Mauthausen was a peaceful one, the liberation of the KZ Gusen Camps was not that successful.
When Haefliger returned to KZ Mauthausen central camp on April 30, 1945 and since Ziereis has had contact with Kaltenbrunner meanwhile, Haefliger was offered accomodation with SS-OStuf Reimer, the chief of the KZ Mauthausen counter intelligence.
www.vex.net /~nizkor/hweb/camps/gusen/pers/hefliger.htm   (3949 words)

  
 KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN Feedback
He was a Major and 2nd in command of his Battalion on May 5, 1945 when it was part of the task force which liberated Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps.
Please provide me with data pertaining to the Mauthausen concentration camp or suggestions as to where exactly I can find data providing that there were female prisoners there also...
The next paragraph, moving forward in history, includes a reference to Gusen, where the text states that from 1940 to 1942 nine new camps were established: Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Gusen, Natzweiler, Gross Rosen, Lublin, Niederhagen, Stutthof, and Arbeitsdorf..."
www.gusen.org /feedback.htm   (3949 words)

  
 Mauthausen
Because the death of more than 150 prisoners in winter 1938 to 1939 due to that everyday-march, decision was made in December 1939 to build a sub-camp of Mauthausen at Gusen.
At first, both camps (Mauthausen and Gusen) were under the command of the SS-Standartenfuehrer Franz Ziereis.
On August 8, 1938, just a few weeks after the Nazi occupation of Austria, prisoners from the Dachau, concentration camp near Munich, were transferred to the Austrian town of Mauthausen, near Linz.
176-m236.summer.com /schools/sss/socials/ww2/jeswar/mauthaus.htm   (3949 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp Article
Mauthausen (from summer 1940, Mauthausen-Gusen) was a group of 49 Nazi concentration camps situated around the small town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria, about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz.
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Mauthausen was a group of 49 Nazi concentration camps situated around the small town of Mauthausen in Upper Austria, about 20 kilometers east of the city of Linz.
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 KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN KZ Gusen III Concentration Camp
KZ Gusen III Camp was the first camp in the Mauthausen-Gusen system to be liberated on May 5, 1945 by S/Sgt. Al Kosiek and 23 men of the 41st Recon Squad, 11th Ard Div, 3rd US Army.
Nevertheless it was December 16, 1944 that this camp was administered officially as a satellite of KZ Gusen II (BERGKRISTALL).
This camp was established near the brick production-plant at Lungitz (some 4 km north of Gusen) with Summer 1943.
www.gusen.org /gu30101x.htm   (3949 words)

  
 Camp Concentration Mauthausen
Mauthausen Gas Chamber When the US Third Army liberated the infamous Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen on May 5, 1945, they found the bodies of several fully-clothed dead prisoners in the gas...
Mauthausen Concentration Camp is a truly terrible place.
Mauthausen concentration camp survivors, May 6, 1945 Photo Credit: USHMM
www.royal-signals.org.uk /10/camp-concentration-mauthausen.html   (3949 words)

  
 Gusen/Bergkristall
Gusen Concentration Camp Memorial, at the site of the KZ-Gusen I crematorium.
Inmates from the nearby Mauthausen camp were moved to a satellite camp adjacent to the village of Gusen, where they worked in a stone quarry.
Later, a small tunnel system was in place in the hills just north of the Gusen camp.
www.thirdreichruins.com /gusen.htm   (3949 words)

  
 Bergkristall English
Constructed within 13 months by prisoners of the KL Gusen II concentration camp within the Mauthausen-Gusen complex due to its high mortality (up to 98%), it became one of the most horrible concentration camp sites in European history (average survival period 4 months).
So, many died in unopend railway cars at local station, froze to death or were killed by the many other cruelties of the KL Gusen II "extermination" camp.
That means; in addition to the 16.000 prisoners of BERGKRISTALL, some further 8.500 prisoners and some 4.000 prisoners had to work and die in Gusen for this small-arms plant and the stone-quarries owned by the "Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH", a company of the SS.
www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/1325/berg.htm   (3949 words)

  
 KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN KZ Gusen I Concentration Camp
Because the Mauthausen Central Camp was under construction at this time, as well, both camps (Mauthausen and Gusen) were administered by SS-Standartenfuehrer Franz Ziereis from one central command in the Wienergraben-Valley.
Hence, some 400 German and Austrian prisoners of KZ Mauthausen-Wienergraben marched every day from Mauthausen-Wienergraben to Gusen to construct 3 prisoners barracks, a few SS-barracks and an electric fence at Gusen by March 1940.
Marsalek, Konzentrationslager Gusen - Ein Nebenlager des KZ Mauthausen
www.nizkor.org /hweb/camps/gusen/gu10101x.htm   (3949 words)

  
 KZ Mauthausen
In total, more than 190,000 people of different nationality became imprisoned in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp, the Gusen Branch Camp and the subcamps, which numbered over 40.
This meant that for the prisoners, there should be no return.
Systematic terror, deliberate killings, exploitation of labour, deficient feeding, inadequate clothing and lack of medical care led to the deaths of about 100,000 prisoners.
www.linz.at /archiv_e/ekapitel6.html   (3949 words)

  
 Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online - 02822 - GUSEN.CA.FS
Simon Wiesenthal Center Multimedia Learning Center Online - 02822 - GUSEN.CA.FS : camp set up in Germany as the first branch of the Mauthausen concentration camp.
Gusen had three parts, each with a different purpose.
Conditions there were terrible, and the staff was mostly made up of ex-convicts.
motlc.wiesenthal.com /pages/t028/t02822.html   (3949 words)

  
 KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN Feedback
He was a Major and 2nd in command of his Battalion on May 5, 1945 when it was part of the task force which liberated Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps.
The next paragraph, moving forward in history, includes a reference to Gusen, where the text states that from 1940 to 1942 nine new camps were established: Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Gusen, Natzweiler, Gross Rosen, Lublin, Niederhagen, Stutthof, and Arbeitsdorf..."
Weiters erlaube ich mir Ihnen mein Kompliment für die sehr umfangreiche Internet Homepage auszusprechen, die Sie dem Gedenken an die Opfer des Konzentrationslagers Gusen widmen...
www.gusen.org /feedback.htm   (3949 words)

  
 Research Library Family History Web Links
Documents the history of the Gusen subcamps of the Mauthausen concentration camp complex.
Web site developed by the KZ Gusen Memorial Committee and various sponsors.
www.ushmm.org /research/library/weblinks/right.htm   (3949 words)

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