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GUNSKIRCHEN Extermination Camp
LITERATURE ABOUT GUNSKRICHEN
- Das Konzentrationslager (KZ) im alten Schulgebaude von Gunskirchen und im Hochholz
sowie die schrecklichen Tage nach Kriegsschluss, Roman Moser, Heimatbuch Gunskirchen (the most
complete story about the Gunskirchen camp, by a local historian)
- The 71st Infantry Division came to Gunskirchen Lager, Austria, May 4, 1945
(booklet about the liberation of the Gunskirchen camp)
- Graves at Gunskirchen, by David L. Ichelson, 1987 (search for Ichelson)
USHMM archives No: RG-09.006*01 (a letter about the liberation and a visit to Gunskirchen)
- Fran Auschwitz till Guenskirchen, Therese
Mueller, Albert Bonniers Foerlag, Kristianstad, 1994, Sweden, ISBN
91-0-055726-9, (pages 125-133 related to Gunskirchen) (in Swedish)
- On Guard The fourteenth Infantry Regiment in Bavaria 1945-6, Gerald Mc
Mahon, Yaderman Books Fairfax, USA (out of print, a copy is available at the USHMM).
The book contains also the publication "A corner of hell" and is mainly based
on "The Graves at Gunskirchen" by David L. Ichelson (pages 26-27 and 31-32
have some extra information about Gunskirchen)
- Mauthausen: the history of a death camp, Evelyn Le Chene, Methue & Co Ltd., London 1971
(Prologue and pages 145-149 about Gunskirchen)
- My brother hail and farewell! Edward Zebrowski, Woodstock books, Tampa Florida 1994, ISBN
0-9640096-0-9 (chapter 13 about the liberation of Gunskirchen)
- The day the war ended by Martin Gilbert, Harper Collins Publishers, London 1995, ISBN 0-00255597-2
(pages 76 and 77 a story from a survivor of the Gunskirchen camp)
- Information sheet of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM),
Washington, USA, 1998 (1 page, general information about the Gunskirchen camp)
- Information sheet of the Simon Wiesenthal Multimedia Learning Center,
Los Angeles, USA
(1 page, general information about the Gunskirchen camp)
- A letter by Mason Dorsey with a story about the liberation of the Gunskirchen camp
of November 5, 1997 to Helmut Tuerk at the Austrian Embassey in Washington, D.C.
- The Biography of Mason (Mickey) Hardin Dorsay
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