Commemoration 2024

The 2024 commemoration will start on May 4, 2024 at 05:00 p.m. CEST at the former roll call square of KL Gusen I. Address: Untere Gartenstrasse, Langenstein, Austria.

 

It will be a milestone in our decades-long commemoration efforts, as it is being carried out this time together with the Mauthausen Memorial for the first time after having been organized by the Gusen Memorial Committee (GMC) for the last 30 years alone with some last survivors.

 

The most obvious change is also that it will start at the former roll call square of KL Gusen I and not at the Memorial Crematorium Gusen. 

 

The main remembrance ceremony will take place on the former roll call square of the former KL Gusen I. Afterwards, the participants will march together in a procession to Memorial Crematorium Gusen to lay wreaths there as usual.

 

The cooperation between the Mauthausen Memorial and the Gusen Memorial Committee (GMC) is a logical consequence of the increased commitment of the Mauthausen Memorial to the remembrance work concerning the former KL Gusen complex of concentration camps in recent years (see, for example, the purchase of substantial pieces of land by the Republic of Austria in Gusen to expand the KL Gusen memorial sites and the related local-national-international participation process for the design goals of the future Gusen memorial sites in the years 2022 to 2023).

 

This first joint commemoration will be accompanied by the following additional programs provided by the Mauthausen Memorial: