Based on the true story of Spanish Civil War veteran Francisco Boix, a prisoner at Nazi Mauthausen concentration camp, who preserved and hid photographs of the conditions at camp. Boix and his fellow prisoners risked their lives to save negatives and evidence of the atrocities committed at Mauthausen.

What concentration camp was Anne Frank sent to?

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
She was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with Margot. Their parents stayed behind in Auschwitz. The conditions in Bergen-Belsen were horrible too.

How many Spaniards died in the Holocaust?

For years, the names of the 4,427 Spaniards who died in the Nazi concentration camp, Mauthausen-Gusen, were tucked away inside several old books in the headquarters of the Central Civil Registry on Madrid’s Montera street.

How far is Vienna from Mauthausen concentration camp?

The distance between Vienna and Mauthausen B3/Gewerbestraße is 135 km. The road distance is 164.5 km.

What are the stairs of death at Mauthausen?

Now the “Stairs of Death” form part of a guided museum tour at the Mauthausen Memorial with much of the camp built over by houses. French resistance fighter Christian Bernadac wrote a book entitled The 186 Steps after he was imprisoned at the camp.

What was the Mauthausen camp like?

The Mauthausen camp was located on the edge of a granite quarry, where prisoners were sent to work. Several times the day, people were forced to carry blocks of stone, weighing over 50 kilograms, up the 186 stairs of the so called “Stairs of Death”.

What was Mauthausen Knochenmühle?

The SS called Mauthausen Knochenmühle, or the bone grinder. The camp was located on the edge of a granite quarry where camp inmates were sent to work. Indeed, the site for the camp was chosen because of the quarry’s close proximity to Linz, a city Hitler planned to rebuild with grandiose buildings as envisioned by Albert Speer.

Are the steps to the Mauthausen quarry real?

Those who visit the Mauthausen quarry today, don’t see the same thing, for since then, the steps have been redone – a real stairway, cemented, and regular.