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

WHAT´S NEW?


  • St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen - Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered [ISBN: 978-3-8334-7440-8] - a comprehensive supplement to the conventional narrative of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp twins with key installations at St. Georgen/Gusen written by Rudolf A. Haunschmied, Jan-Ruth Mills and Siegi Witzany-Durda of the Gusen Memorial Committee (GMC) - is available in English since May 2008 at online bookshops like www.bod.de, www.libri.de, www.amazon.de, www.buch.de, www.buecher.de, www.buchhandel.de, etc.

  • Audiowalk Gusen (Audioweg Gusen) - an art project by christoph mayer chm - was opened 5 May 2007 by the President of the Austrian Parliament, Mrs. Barbara Prammer.

  • Stanisaw Dobosiewicz´s book Mauthausen/Gusen - Oboz zaglady - a comprehensive history of Extermination Camp Gusen was translated an for the first time published in German language by the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior in April 2007.

  • Topographic information (a map) about key objects of the KZ Mauthausen-GUSEN complex is now (2006) available at GOOGLE MAPS too.

  • New KZ Gusen Visitors´ Center (Besucherzentrum Gusen) was opened on May 8, 2004 by Austrian Minister for Internal Affairs, Dr. Ernst Strasser.

  • KZ Gusen Person´s Committee (Komitetu Osobistosci - Gusen) was founded in Vienna, Austria on May 25, 2001 by Polish Foreign Minister, Dr. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Austrian Minister for Internal Affairs, Dr. Ernst Strasser, the President of the Austrian National Assembly, Dr. Heinz Fischer and the Governor of Upper Austria, Landeshauptmann Dr. Joseph Puehringer.

  • New Website about KZ GUNSKIRCHEN Extermination Camp written by Wiebe van IJken integrated to this Info-Pages.

  • Official website of the 11th Armored Division that liberated KZ Gusen I, II & III and KZ Mauthausen on May 5, 1945 is available now.

  • The new book of David Wingeate Pike on Spaniards in the Holocaust is available now. It contains also much information about KZ Gusen I & II

  • Stanislaw Grzesiuk´s book Piec Lat Kacetu is available again at Ksiazka i Wiedza in Warszawa, Poland. More than half of the book deals with KZ Gusen

  • New book of Pierre Serge Choumoff about the gassings in Hartheim, Mauthausen and GUSEN published by the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior in Vienna, Austria

  • New book of Stanislaw Dobosiewicz about Mauthausen-GUSEN published by Dom Wydawniczy Bellona in Warszawa, Poland

  • New Monument for Victims of KZ Gusen III inaugurated with the Year 2000 Commemoration at Lungitz, Austria

  • Former Polish Foreign Minister, Dr. Wladyslaw Bartoszewski thanked our committee in his speech held at the Austrian National Assembly on May 4, 2000

  • A new book was published in English about the life of Pére Jacques (Lucien Bunel) by ICS Publications in Washington, D.C. Pére Jacques was an inmate of KZ Gusen I. The case for his canonization was opened in 1990.

  • On June 13, 1999, Pope John Paul II beatified Wlodzimiersz Laskowski (born January 30, 1886) along with one hundred seven other Polish martyrs, such as like Jozef Cebula in Warszawa. Laskowski, the former Roman Catholic Parson of Lwowek, Poland, was murdered in KZ Gusen on September 18, 1942.

  • Traveler´s Guide to World War II Sites contains details about the locations of KZ Gusen I and II remnants as well as many other former concentration camps!

  • Two American Nurses who served in the 131st Evacuation Hospital at Gusen participated in the 1999 KZ Gusen commemoration first time!

  • Nazi sentence against Dr. Johann (Papa) Gruber the "Saint of Gusen" reversed by Austrian court

  • An Austrian Government Member joins the
    commemoration at Gusen for the first time!

  • Spectacular Discovery: Paintings of KZ Gusen Inmate
    found in Regensburg, Germany (the hometown of MESSERSCHMITT fighter-planes)

  • List of inmates at the KZ Gusen-KELLERBAU tunnels

  • Official Preface of The President of the International Mauthausen Comitee (IMC)
  • New Federal Web-Site about KZ Mauthausen central camp

  • Re-Edition of Aldebert´s Book and Drawings
    about KZ GUSEN II (B8 Bergkristall-Esche 2) from 1946

  • 10th Anniversiary of Marcel Callo´s beatification

  • Outstanding Personalities at KZ Gusen

  • Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH (DEST) - the company that ran KZ Mauthausen-Gusen.

  • KZ Gusen at the 4th International Conference on Learning and Research in Working Life

  • LIBERATION OF MAUTHAUSEN-GUSEN
    by S/Sgt. Albert J. Kosiek on May 5, 1945

  • MEMORIAL CREMATORIUM KZ GUSEN
    transferred to Republic of Austria


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KZ GUSEN Memorial Committee
Most recent updates of this page were made on
2008-05-01 by Rudolf A. HAUNSCHMIED,
Martha GAMMER, Siegi WITZANY-DURDA and
Jan-Ruth MILLS