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MAUTHAUSEN

Years of operation for camp of Mauthausen is 1938-1945, 7 years . Mauthausen is a execution concentration camp.

years of Operation

The living conditions were about 500 prisoners living in each barrack, but their number increased to 1.000 as time went by. The blocks were equipped with triple level bunks. The prisoners were always suffering from the dust caused by the mattresses which were filled with a combination of straw and sawdust, and also from the ever increasing lack of space. Then there were the lice which could not be extirpated due to the totally inefficient hygienic facilities.

Living conditions

Eva was born in Mauthausen Concentration Camp on April 29, 1945.her and her mother were the only two of her family of 15 survivors. There are two reasons why they survived, the first being that the Germans had destroyed the gas chamber in Mauthausen on April 28th, and she was born the next day! The second reason was liberation of the concentration camp by the American Army six days after her birth!

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Mauthausen liberation was in May 5 1945 by the US 11th. Armored division

Liberation

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007729

http://www.doew.at/thema/thema_alt/wuv/ebensee/condition.html

http://www.11tharmoreddivision.com/history/eva_clark/i_was_born_in_mauthausen.htm

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