Photographs of the Holocaust
Mauthausen
Views of the Camp
- A gate
- Mauthausen after liberation
- International Red Cross vehicles parked after liberation
- A Soviet honor guard stands before the "todesstiege" (The Stairs of Death)
Commandants
- Franz Ziereis, Commandant of Mauthausen
- SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Georg Bachmann, Commandant of the prison camp
While Camp in Operation
- New arrivals at the "Klagemauer" (wailing wall) after a week long trip in open railway cars
- Six thousand prisoners wait in the camp courtyard for disinfection
- Heinrich Himmler beginning his inspection
Forced Labor
- Forced laborers building the roll call square
- The quarry
- Inspecting the quarry
- Spanish Republicans at forced labor in the quarry
- Wiener Graben quarry
- Concentration camp inmates at forced labor hauling cartloads of earth
Greeting the Liberators
- Cheering survivors greet American troops
- Survivors and American liberators gathered on a camp street after the liberation
- Survivors cheer the soldiers of the Second Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army one day after their actual liberation
- Survivors open one of the crematoria ovens for American troops who are inspecting the camp
- Survivors eagerly pull down the Nazi eagle over entrance
Survivors
- Tattooed survivors in a barracks
- In the women's camp at Mauthausen, survivors stand around the entrance to a barracks
- Survivors in the "Russian Camp" section
- Male and female Mauthausen survivors converse with one another through the barbed-wire fence
- In the women's camp, survivors queue up for soup
- Women and children survivors speak to an American liberator through a barbed wire fence
- Survivors and an American soldier beside a barbed wire fence
The Dead
- Survivors counting the corpses of prisoners
- Austrian citizens remove corpses from the "Russian camp" section for burial in a mass grave
- Prisoners' bodies laid out in a mass grave
