Mauthausen Memorial

Dear reader in order to fully understand this location you must invest some time in your own education. This is place of ghosts, silent tears and invisible blood. This place represents the very worst of humanity. Please don't be one of those "turists" that's having a casual walk, be one who fully understand it and appreciate effort of preservation of this location. Also keep in mind this location is resting place of thousands persons.

As an historian it's difficult to explain how after several visits to concentration camps, it never stops to impress. This is no different. It truly choked me.
I did hope to have experienced more about the LGBTQ exterminations, as this lager was one of the forgotten and ignored hotspots for this Holocaust.

Improvements were promised though.

This is the third death camp I visit in Europe. Every time it is sick at heart. But I'm sure it is extremely necessary to periodically remind yourself of what happened, what evil a person is capable of and what pain this same person can endure. May peace and love reign in the world one day. ☮

Visiting this place, where so many atrocities were committed was a raw, anger inducing experience. The memorial does not sugar coat history and for someone who grew up in a typically “white-privileged” middle class lifestyle, it was sobering. That humans could visit such evil, for there is no other word that comes remotely close to describing, upon other humans is unbelievable and horrific. An excellent audio phone app in several languages can be downloaded for self-touring. Descriptions of various locations within the camp are provided for tourists. It is also used for Austrian teens as part of their upper school history curriculum.

An amazing experience. The museum and displays are tastefully done and tell the story. The audio guide was very well done and informative. Our kids were engaged and interested in the history. Recommend not taking small children as the topics are obviously heavy.

Cruel part of history, for everyone to see and remember. The site does not charge for parking nor entrance, the signs and the free online audio guide describe what happened, and what must not happen again. You may book a tour if you want to. If you can find an hour or two on your trip, go educate yourself!

Very sad place to visite. All the innocent lives lost. It's also a free place to see.

A very humbling experience. The place is greatly preserved and the new additions such as the museum area are done in a respectful manner. The audio guide provided to us for free was super helpful and detailed. There was no entrance fee and the parking was free as well.

when you enter, it almost seems to see thousands of people and to touch their pain, which we can never even remotely imagine. you can't help but be moved. the first time I took the guided tour in Italian, done very well, fair and accessible price, the guide is local and explains a lot of background that you don't know... he's also very open to questions and encourages you to ask them. highly recommended… the guides in Italian are only in August, this makes me think that we visit Mauthausen few times and this is very sad. Other times I have visited Mauthausen without a guide, even just to think and every time it is a blow to the heart.

Everyone should perhaps visit this place or a similar memorial at least once in their lives. The free self guided tour is well scripted in English and clearly delivered in a no nonsense way. We left in tears and still unable to understand man's inhumanity to their fellow man.

It was a sad reminder of the holocaust. Two of the ovens used to kill Jews were on display. The barracks that were designed to house 200 were said to have held 2000. 4 pows to a bunk. It's heart breaking to see what you know was real.

I believe the history should not be forgotten. An open museum to the public, you can install the app and walk around the place while listening to the online guide. Also, a great museum. At least 2 hours recommended.

Impressive former concentration camp site
A lot of buildings remain and a good display is provided on the old horrors
It also includes a set of memorial monuments, for each country has their own.
I advise to download the free audio guide up front to have a full understanding of what happened there.
Parking and camp are completely free.

Heartbreaking experience but one that everyone should have. It includes an audio tour but only for 13 years and older. I shared the audio with my children but that would be up to you.

The site has several buildings still in tact. The showers exposed the vulnerability of us as humans. The amount of pain caused here and with a town so close. The last building of the tour has been converted into a museum and is full of stories by both survivors and historical accounts. While the furnaces were dismantled by the SS prior to capture there is plenty here to understand the horrors man is capable of. The lower level is full of artifacts and accounts from prisoners held here.

The “Stairs of Death” were fenced off to the quarry but still visible. Each area was well explained and brought reality to the suffering effecting so many.

Very worth your time.

A historical place and best for tourists. Mauthausen was the Adolf Hitler concentration camp to be liberated by the Allies. As of January 1945, the camp had over 85,000 prisoners. Around 300,000 people including jews were sentenced to death using poison gas, hanging, shooting and deadly medicine.

A very moving place to visit where people talk in hushed voices. It would be impossible to describe the horrors of this place and far too easy to blame on generations passed. Should be a place that every school student should visit.

One of the known historical sites in Mauthausen that even walls and rocks have their own secrets to tell.

Well preserved place. Very sad part of history but important to acknowledge and learn.

The camp is quite intact. Decently preserved with a map provided at the visitors center to guide you on the walking tour. Everything is marked clearly on the map and easy to find. Not a sprawling camp like Auschwitz but well worth the visit.

Had a tour with Martin Luger which was excellent. So Informative and interesting and also open and frank but delivered with sensitivity. Mauthausen memorial itself was a mix of original features and buildings and reconstructed areas. Memorials around the area make for lots of reflection. Seeing the accommodation, gas chamber and crematorium was very sobering but was well balanced with thoughtful in memoriam sections throughout. Mauthausen is a very important place to visit.