Explore photographs showing the Mauthausen camp, personnel, and conditions. An estimated 197,464 prisoners passed through the Mauthausen concentration camp system between August 1938 and May 1945. At least 95,000 people were killed there.
![View of the Mauthausen concentration camp. This photograph was taken after the liberation of the camp. [LCID: 74453]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/4cf150c5-e175-4e87-a966-979819e1a5ac.jpg "View of the Mauthausen concentration camp. This photograph was taken after the liberation of the camp. [LCID: 74453]")
View of the Mauthausen concentration camp. This photograph was taken after the liberation of the camp. Austria, May 5-30, 1945.
Item View![The roll call square in the Mauthausen concentration camp, looking toward the main gate. [LCID: 74452]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/d05f2716-717c-498c-a105-e7364e94be49.jpg "The roll call square in the Mauthausen concentration camp, looking toward the main gate. [LCID: 74452]")
The roll call square in the Mauthausen concentration camp, looking toward the main gate. This photograph was taken after the liberation of the camp. Mauthausen, Austria, between May and September, 1945.
Item View![SS chief Heinrich Himmler leads an inspection of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 12056]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8f863273-27fc-48eb-86fa-6288a247e097.jpg "SS chief Heinrich Himmler leads an inspection of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 12056]")
SS chief Heinrich Himmler leads an inspection of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, April 27, 1941.
Item View![SS Colonel Franz Ziereis, commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 76514]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/e2526d90-d0d6-4f8c-b2be-dde7d1a2cc87.jpg "SS Colonel Franz Ziereis, commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 76514]")
SS Colonel Franz Ziereis, commandant of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
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 View![SS officers posing in front of a newly arrived transport of Soviet prisoners of war. [LCID: 19482]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0f9cdc04-67fd-4d09-bc9f-b06c2cae8794.jpg "SS officers posing in front of a newly arrived transport of Soviet prisoners of war. [LCID: 19482]")
SS officers posing in front of a newly arrived transport of Soviet prisoners of war. Mauthausen concentration camp, Austria, 1941.
Item View![Survivors, American soldiers, and Red Cross workers at the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 08036]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/39d0037a-df63-4f6e-be76-a46166c3e62a.jpg "Survivors, American soldiers, and Red Cross workers at the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 08036]")
Survivors, American soldiers, and Red Cross workers at the Mauthausen concentration camp. Mauthausen, Austria, after May 5, 1945.
Item View![Post-liberation view of the Russian Camp (Hospital Camp), a section of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 07730]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/8d217df2-4c14-4fb2-80b1-43190f2ca698.jpg "Post-liberation view of the Russian Camp (Hospital Camp), a section of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 07730]")
Post-liberation view of the Russian Camp (Hospital Camp), a section of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Mauthausen, Austria, May 1945.
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A 13-year-old orphan, a survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Photograph taking following liberation of the camp. Austria, May 1945.
Item View![Survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, May 1945. [LCID: 78535]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/1e04e6eb-d7d5-4ae1-b300-e97de22f1212.jpg "Survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, May 1945. [LCID: 78535]")
Emaciated survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp soon after the liberation of the camp. Austria, May 1945.
Item View![Disabled Soviet and Polish prisoners in front of a tank of the 11th Armored Division, US Third Army. [LCID: 77020]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/78f1a70a-cea1-47a8-a74a-fe4d5188e417.jpg "Disabled Soviet and Polish prisoners in front of a tank of the 11th Armored Division, US Third Army. [LCID: 77020]")
Soviet and Polish prisoners with disabilities stand in front of a tank of the 11th Armored Division, US Third Army. This photograph was taken at the Mauthausen concentration camp immediately after liberation. Austria, May 5–7, 1945.
Item View![A mass grave at the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 04767]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/cb9fd8c6-9dd0-482c-a0b2-71da2cef9658.jpg "A mass grave at the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 04767]")
A mass grave at the Mauthausen concentration camp. Photograph taken after the liberation of the camp. Mauthausen, Austria, May 10–15, 1945.
Item View![A pile of corpses at the Russian Camp (Hospital Camp) section of the Mauthausen concentration camp after liberation. [LCID: 04766]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/815ca29a-96a2-4f50-abec-5e0a3e42ddce.jpg "A pile of corpses at the Russian Camp (Hospital Camp) section of the Mauthausen concentration camp after liberation. [LCID: 04766]")
A pile of corpses at the Russian Camp (Hospital Camp) section of the Mauthausen concentration camp after liberation. Mauthausen, Austria, May 5-15, 1945.
Item View![An American solider looks at the Mauthausen crematorium during the liberation of the camp. [LCID: 74467]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5d2e576f-f7e9-4e70-a791-233574851989.jpg "An American solider looks at the Mauthausen crematorium during the liberation of the camp. [LCID: 74467]")
A US soldier looks at the Mauthausen crematorium during the liberation of the camp. Austria, May 1945.
Item View![An American soldier and liberated prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 74456]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/2da4aa1b-1cf5-40a8-af55-1dba1c4eaae1.jpg "An American soldier and liberated prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 74456]")
A US soldier with liberated prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Austria, May 1945.
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