About us

The Gusen Memorial Committee (GMC) is a registered Austrian association (Reg. No. 956593891) that is dedicated to:

• the advancement of science-based research and the didactical mediating of the history of the former national socialist concentration camp complex St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen.
• the advancement of the perpetuation of the remembrance of the tens of thousands of victims of the former KZ Gusen I. II & III concentration camps.
• the Support of KZ Gusen survivors in need.

Thus, typical activities of the GMC are:

• care for survivors and liberators, and their relatives, and other groups of visitors.
• support and care to relevant research work and projects.
• collection and provision of archival material.
• historical research in archives.
• editing of publications.
• guiding tours (to the remnants of the former KZ Gusen concentration camps).
• organization of commemorations at KZ Gusen remnants.
• organization of discussions and informative meetings.
• social Meetings.
• participation in specific conferences
• support of GMC members to fund the activities mentioned above.

The GMC is also member in the following other NGOs:

• Plattform Johann Gruber
• Bewusstseinsregion Mauthausen-Gusen-St. Georgen
• Österreichische Freunde von Yad Vashem
• Mauthausen Komitee Österreich

Find more about our many activities also at:

• Gusen Memorial Committee (GMC) on Facebook
• @Gusen_Memorial on Twitter

As Austrian NGO we are proud on the following international awards and official acknowledgements for our decades of research and remembrance work on the former KL Gusen complex of concentration camps:

• Kustosz Pamięci Narodowej (Curator of National Remembrance) by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), 2020
• Diploma "Straż pamięci" (Guard of Remembrance) by Polish magazine "Do Rzeczy", 2016