KZ GUSEN MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
within ARBEITSKREIS FUER HEIMAT-, DENKMAL- UND GESCHICHTSPFLEGE (AHDG)
and Local-International Platform ST. GEORGEN/GUSEN, Austria
KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN Info-Pages
OUTSTANDING PERSONALITIES
We dedicate these pages to a few people closely linked to KZ Gusen I, II & III.
While nearly all of them have become associated with the KZ Mauthausen central camp in recent years,
most actually suffered in KZ Gusen and therefore typify the tens of thousands of nearly forgotten victims
of that most horrible camp.
- Marcel Callo, the beatified young French Youth Activist,
died in close relation to the KZ Gusen II (Bergkristall) underground installations.
Pope John-Paul beatified him in October 1987.
- Dr. Johann (Papa) Gruber, the "Saint of Gusen" ,
helped many inmates survive and organized an illegal school for children in KZ Gusen I.
KZ Gusen survivors officially requested his beatification at the Vatican in 1988.
- Father Jacques (Lucien Bunel), a French monk, died after
many months in KZ Gusen I where he was sent for hiding several Jewish boys
in a French monastery. Film director Louis Malle (a former student of Father Jacques) dedicated
the movie "Au revoir les enfants" (Good-bye Children) to him, and USHMM dedicated an exhibition to him in 1997).
- Albert J. Kosiek and Louis Haefliger risked their lives and careers
to liberate the 40,000 inmates of the Mauthausen-Gusen I, II & III complex in May 1945.
The Republic of Austria twice nominated Haefliger for the Nobel Peace-Price.
Information credit:
- Bandion Wolfgang, Johann Gruber: Mauthausen-Gusen 7.April 1944 mit 14 Radierungen von Alfred Hrdlicka, WUV-Universitätsverlag, Wien 1995
- Bernadac Christian, Les Sorciers du Ciel - L´Organisation Gruber (about Dr. Johann Gruber), France Empire, Paris 1969
- Bernadac Christian, Les Sorciers du Ciel - Le Pere Jacques a Gusen (Lucien Bunel), France Empire, Paris 1969
- Brusson Paul, Allocution de l´President de l´amicale Belge de Mauthausen pour Gusen, Bulletin Interieure de l´ Amicale Francaise de Mauthausen, Numero Special pour la 50eme Anniversaire de la Liberation, Paris 1995
- Carrouges Michel, Père Jacques (Lucien Bunel ... as remembered by his fellow prsioners at GUSEN concentration camp) , The Macmillan Company, New York, 1961
- Comitee International de la Croix Rouge, Die Tätigkeit des IKRK zugunsten
der in deutschen Konzentrationslagern inhaftierten Zivilpersonen (1939-1946), Genf 1985
- Deble Louis, Johann Gruber, pretre autrichien, assasine le 7 avril 1944, Bulletin Interieure de l´ Amicale Francaise de Mauthausen, Numero Special pour l´ 50eme Anniversaire de la Liberation, Paris 1995
- Gerardi Bernhard, Marcel Callo - Ein Leben für die Brüder, Augsburg 1961
- Gouyon, Kardinal Paul, Marcel Callo, p.199 ff., Salzburg 1988
- Hugelé, Gavard, Murphy, Gufoni, Sterckx, Bédarida, Choumoff, Maccise, Par la Croix vers la lumière, Le Père Jacques de Jésus 1900-1945, Textes des journées de recontre organisées à la mémoire du Père Jacques, les 9-11 juin et 22-24 septembre 1995, Les Èditions du Cerf, Paris 1999
- Jego J.B., Un Example Marcel Callo
- Lenz Johannes Maria, Christus in Dachau - Priester in Gusen, Libri Catholici, Wien
- Matt Alphons, Einer aus dem Dunkel - Die Befreiung ..., Zürich 1988
- Pabel Rosemarie, Marcel Callo - Dokumentation, Eichstaedt-Wien 1991
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Most recent updates of this page were made on
2006-03-07 by Rudolf A. HAUNSCHMIED,
Martha GAMMER, Siegi WITZANY-DURDA and
Jan-Ruth MILLS