Overview
- Caption
- 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
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May 1945
- Locale
- Mauthausen, [Upper Austria] Austria
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Loren Lund
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Loren Lund
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- MAUTHAUSEN QUARRIES/STONES STAIRS VIEWS
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- 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.
- Record last modified:
- 2012-05-16 00:00:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1175773