| This photograph shows some
of the 190 granite blocks donated to the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum by the Mauthausen
Public Memorial in Austria. The Nazis established
the Mauthausen
concentration camp in 1938 near an abandoned stone
quarry. Prisoners were forced to carry these granite
blocks up more than 180 steps. The small blocks
weigh between 30 and 45 pounds each. The larger
blocks could each weigh more than 75 pounds. Prisoners
assigned to forced labor in the camp quarry were
quickly worked to death. |
