ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: How many names and dates of people who perished in Mauthausen are now known?
This week we commemorate Yom HaShoah, which is observed on the 27th of the Hebrew month of Nisan. It is the Jewish memorial day for the Holocaust, while Holocaust Remembrance Day, on January 27, is an international day of commemoration. In Israel it is a national memorial day and Jews around the world hold special ceremonies and services. In this program we will hear about the notorious Mauthausen concentration camp, and the memorial that has been established there.
Mauthausen is a small town in Austria, about 100 miles or 165 kilometers, west of Vienna on the Danube River. Between 1938 and its liberation in 1945 it was the site of a major Nazi concentration camp. Shortly after the war a museum was established there, and it has developed into an important memorial, which now includes smaller memorials at the nearby Gusen and other satellite camps.
Dr. Christian Dürr, Curator of the Mauthausen Memorial, tells us about its history and how it has evolved since it was first opened in 1949.
