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"As a resident of many camps, I can say that Guzen was the worst. This is not to say that the conditions at the other camps were not dreadful. Compared to Guzen, however, one might almost say that those camps were paradises. The proof of this might be that Guzen was one of the least known camps. This was not because it was smaller than the others - it might even have been the largest. It was unknown simply because very few of the tens of thousand of prisoners sent there remained alive to tell the story of its horrors."

(Rabbi RAV YECHEZKEL HARFENES (when back to Auschwitz) in " BeKaf HaKela" (Slingshot of Hell),
Targum Press, Southfield Michigan, 1988
Surviors of KZ Gusen at their final roll call to salute their American liberators. The Jourhouse and main entrance to KZ Gusen I shortly after liberation in 1945. All of the huge granite watch towers and walls of KZ Gusen I were removed in the years after the war.
The original bell of KZ Gusen I is preserved today in the Archives of KZ Auschwitz Museum in Poland.
DEST of St. Georgen run the SS-enterprises and stone quarries of Gusen, Mauthausen, Beneschau, etc.
Two of the top secret railway entrances into B8 BERGKRISTALL - one of the most modern and complete underground plants of Nazi Germany built by inmates of KZ Gusen II at St. Georgen
The barracks of KZ Gusen II burnt by US troops a few weeks after liberation. The KZ Gusen Memorial was built by survivors in the 1960-ties to prevent further demolition of the KZ Gusen Crematorium. Allied Combined Intelligence focused on the KZ Gusen concentration camps since 1943.

Background music: First part of the KZ Gusen March (dedicated to the political prisoners) that was composed 1942 in KZ Gusen by Gracjan (Jasio) Guzinski to the words of Konstanty Cwierk (+1944)

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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

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