GUIDA dell’ex-campo di concentramento di MAUTHAUSEN (Guide to the Former Mauthausen Concentration Camp). Published by the Amicale de Mauthausen (Association of Former Mauthausen Prisoners). Text edited by Émile Valley and Robert Simon. C. 1950s. Italian edition.
“This is the story of approximately 225,000 deportees, most of them men, women, and children, of whom only 25,000 lived to see their homes again. Nearly 200,000 perished between August 1938 and May 1945. Eighty months devoted to death! An average of 2,500 deaths each month! How many of them remain unknown!”
A detailed guide, accompanied by photographs, documenting the operation of the machinery of death at Mauthausen Concentration Camp – from the arrival of prisoners at the camp and the exchange of their clothing for prison uniforms, to the more than sixty nationalities represented among the inmates, the various camp installations where prisoners were subjected to forced labor, the operation of the satellite camps, the prisoners’ harsh living conditions, executions, conditions in the Bunker (the walled prison where medical experiments were carried out on prisoners), the crematoria and their operation, the horrors of the gas chambers, the operating rooms, detailed descriptions of the events that took place in the various camp blocks (according to each block number), the tragic fate of the Jews imprisoned in the camp, the atrocities committed on the Stairs of Death, and more.
The booklet is illustrated with harsh photos of emaciated prisoners taken at the time of the camp’s liberation, photographs of the various sections of the camp, and two maps of the camp – one folding map opening to 30×22 cm, accompanied by a photograph of the camp’s Stairs of Death, and another map printed across the two center pages.
28 pages + [1] folding map of the camp. Good condition.
