![A view of the Wiener Graben quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor. [LCID: 89973]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/59c448ee-bc02-4d8b-a788-89931f3c4edc.jpg "A view of the Wiener Graben quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor. [LCID: 89973]")
A view of the quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp, where prisoners were subjected to forced labor. Austria, 1938-1945.
Item View![Forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 18229]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/6b229b95-cb79-4fd4-b39e-4dd4cb8daafe.jpg "Forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 18229]")
Forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, date uncertain.
Item View![A Soviet inmate lies dead in the Mauthausen concentration camp quarry. [LCID: 19481]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/2641ff2e-ffe7-40d7-9d5f-fc3c7874f5df.jpg "A Soviet inmate lies dead in the Mauthausen concentration camp quarry. [LCID: 19481]")
A Soviet inmate lies dead in the Mauthausen concentration camp quarry. Austria, between July 1941 and May 1945.
Item View![The quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, date uncertain. [LCID: 19539]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/83460897-335f-4ff1-9d20-60fbd102fe94.jpg "The quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, date uncertain. [LCID: 19539]")
The Wiener Graben quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, photograph taken after the liberation of the camp.
Item View![Forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 12352]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5a06be0a-cc49-4ee6-9719-05e5d290a811.jpg "Forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 12352]")
Prisoners at forced labor in the quarry of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, date uncertain.
Item ViewSaul grew up in a religious Jewish family. He was trained as a tailor. In 1939 he was sent to forced labor along with most of the young men of his town. He worked in many different labor camps before being deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp system in 1944. While working there, Saul's hand was broken by an SS guard. He eventually ended up in the hospital in the Dachau camp. He was liberated by US troops in May 1945. After the war he returned to his hometown and was reunited with his sister. They lived in a displaced persons camp in Austria, where Saul met and married his wife, Miriam. Saul, his wife, and their two children settled in the United States in 1957.
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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 weighed 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.
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