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View of the stone quarry where prisoners carried heavy stones up a tall stairwell.

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    View of the stone quarry where prisoners carried heavy stones up a tall stairwell.
    View of the stone quarry where prisoners carried heavy stones up a tall stairwell. Original caption reads: "This is the 186 steps Nazis made prisoners half starved carry heavy loads up that white path on the left. If they couldn't make it they whipped them. The cliff is where they pushed them off."

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    View of the stone quarry where prisoners carried heavy stones up a tall stairwell.

    Original caption reads: "This is the 186 steps Nazis made prisoners half starved carry heavy loads up that white path on the left. If they couldn't make it they whipped them. The cliff is where they pushed them off."
    Date
    May 1945
    Locale
    Mauthausen, [Upper Austria] Austria
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Loren Lund

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Loren Lund

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    David John Leslie Pihlstrand (the uncle of the donor) served in the US Army's 65th Division in World War II and participated in the liberation of Mauthausen.
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    2012-05-16 00:00:00
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