Women in Mauthausen

May 7, 2006 - Remembrance of the Women at the 61st commemoration of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. It is a remembrance of the women's immense suffering as forced sex workers and of their courageous struggle for survival.

Memorial monument at camp site

Russian Memorial
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Memorial plaque for Sinti and Roma
 

Memorial plaque for homosexuals
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Entering by representatives of Canada
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Entering (click to enlarge)

Poster in memory of the women

Room in a barrack

Memorial plaque - Remembering the women

Camp brothel

Special monument where the 'appelplatz' was in the camp

Feminist opposition: To the women and girls.
For all who got raped and were forced into
prostitution, and all other victims.
You are not forgotten. (click to enlarge)

Memorial with a quotation by Bertold Brecht (1933)
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Memorial for the girls (click to enlarge)