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Local-International Commemoration
May 5-6, 2001

Exhibition at "Moarhaus" Gusen

A special exhibition was organized at the "Moarhaus" Gusen by the newly founded "Heimatverein" Langenstein to present certain parts of the holdings of our committee´s archive to the numerous survivors and to interested people of the local population.

Since it is located between the former KZ Gusen I & II camps and the "Kellerbau" tunnels, "Moarhaus" Gusen was an integral part of the KZ Gusen concentration camp complex and could mark the beginning of a special KZ Gusen Museum in the vicinity of the former camps at Gusen.
Polish delegations at the opening of the KZ Gusen exhibition at "Moarhaus" Gusen Head of the Polish Embassy in Vienna, Austria opening the exhibition on behalf of H.E. Ambassador Prof. Irena Lipowicz
To house the exhibition, the building was renovated by different local organizations with the support of the Community of Langenstein.

In recent years the KZ Gusen Memorial Committee collected a lot of material about the former KZ Gusen camps from all over the world, and the tiny Museum is dedicated to become a place where survivors or their relatives could give remnants of the former camps to show to the public.
Even the younger Polish generation was present at the birth of that tiny museum Special focus was given to the slave work and the thousands of victims in the industrial park of KZ Gusen I, II and III
Along with this exhibition, a new miniature model of the concentration camps at Gusen was presented to the public for the first time. It was made by Mr. Franz Walzer, who already fabricated a plastic model of "B8 Bergkristall" a few years ago and which is based on arial photographs taken by US reconnaissance craft and on maps from our archives.

Many visiting survivors wrote down their remembrances of Gusen on special forms available at the exhibition which will be analyzed soon.
Survivors and people of local population writing down memories and details about the former KZ Gusen camps Pierre Serge Choumoff, survivor of KZ Gusen I, explaining the new plastic model of KZ Gusen I to the head of Institut Francaise de Vienne, Mr. Francois Laquieze.

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