On our second day in Salzburg, we took a 2-hour bus ride to an important, if intense, a site in Austrian history: the Mauthausen Memorial, dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust.
The location used to be an old stone quarry and the internees were political prisoners from all around Europe. The site has moving memorials and reconstructions of buildings dating from 1938 to 1945. It was one of the last places to be liberated by the American troops.
-Jeanne Scheppach (Photos by Hannah Welch)
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