The digital archive of the Gunskirchen Memorial Site contains photographs, documents, contemporary witnesses' accounts, audio recordings, videos, and a list of sources.
The collection includes historical documents, images, and other materials related to the history of the Gunskirchen satellite camp. Content can be searched by era, topic, and keyword.
Literatur, Archivquellen und Interviews: das vollständige Verzeichnis aller Quellen, auf die sich die Texte der Website stützen – mit Verweisen auf die Textstellen, in denen sie belegt sind.
Brochure accompanying the three-day memorial hike GO THERE AND REMEMBER along the death-march route from Mauthausen to Gunskirchen – available as PDF in German and English.
Rachel Chanoch, the widow of survivor Daniel Chanoch, wrote down her words on the Gunskirchen Memorial in English. Alongside it stands a Hebrew text by Daniel Chanoch himself.
On 29 September 2026, Avigdor Neumann wrote down his memories of persecution, deportation and liberation, together with his appeal against antisemitism, in Hebrew.
Anton Aschauer; Wolfram Kastner: Furchtbare Wege. Der Todesmarsch ungarischer Juden durch den Bezirk Kirchdorf. [Terrible paths. The death march of Hungarian Jews through the district of Kirchdorf.] Kirchdorf 2007.
Andreas Baumgartner; Rudolf Kropf: ‘Man hat halt mit dem leben müssen.’ Nebenlager des KZ Mauthausen in der Wahrnehmung der Lokalbevölkerung. [‘One had to live with it’: The secondary camps of Mauthausen in the perception of the local population.] Final report of a research project conducted by Mauthausen Committee Austria (MKÖ). Vienna 2002.
Ines Bernt-Koppensteiner (ed.): Nirgendwohin. Todesmärsche durch Oberösterreich 1945. Eine Spurensuche in die Zukunft. [To nowhere. Death marches through Upper Austria in 1945. Looking for clues in the future.] Steyr 2015.
Yvonne Burger: Das vergessene Lager. Das ehemalige Waldlager Gunskirchen. [The forgotten camp. The former forest camp Gunskirchen.] Master’s thesis. Vienna 2019.
Daniel Chanoch; Arik Gordin; Amia Lieblich; Rachel Chanoch: Erzählen um zu leben. Das Leben ist eine Frage von Sekunden und Millimetern. [Tell to live. Life hinges on seconds and millimetres.] Mauthausen Committee Austria (MKÖ)/Austrian Association of Mauthausen Survivors (ÖLM) (ed.). Vienna 2021.
Extract from the Wels police station chronicles concerning the construction of the Gunskirchen camp and the arrival of Hungarian Jews in the camp on 17 and 28 April 1945. Mauthausen Memorial Archive, MM_J_05_09.
Doris Fath-Gottinger: Die ungarischen Juden auf ihrem Todesmarsch in das KZ Gunskirchen [The Hungarian Jews on their death march to Gunskirchen concentration camp]. Dissertation, University of Linz 2006. Volume 2.
Florian Freund: Gunskirchen (Wels I). In: Wolfgang Benz; Barbara Distel (ed.): Der Ort des Terrors [The Place of Terror]. Volume 4: Flossenbürg, Mauthausen, Ravensbrück. Munich 2006.
Florian Freund; Bertrand Perz; Mark Spoerer: Zwangsarbeiter und Zwangsarbeiterinnen auf dem Gebiet der Republik Österreich 1939–1945. [Forced labourers in the territory of the Republic of Austria 1939–1945.] Volume 26/1 of the publications of the Austrian Historical Commission. Vienna, Munich 2004.
Peter Kammerstätter: Der Todesmarsch ungarischer Juden von Mauthausen nach Gunskirchen im April 1945 [The Death March of Hungarian Jews from Mauthausen to Gunskirchen in April 1945]. Collection of material, Linz 1972.
Andreas Kranebitter: Zahlen als Zeugen. Soziologische Analysen der Häftlingsgesellschaft des KZ Mauthausen. [Figures as witnesses. Sociological analyses of the prisoner community of Mauthausen concentration camp.] Mauthausen-Studien, Volume 9. Vienna new academic press 2012.
Christian Krönes; Florian Weigensamer: A Boy’s Life. Documentary film AT 2023. According to Angelika Schlackl: KZ Gunskirchen – ‘Waldlager’. [Gunskirchen concentration camp – ‘the forest camp’.] In: betrifft widerstand. [regarding resistance.] The journal published by the Zeitgeschichte Museum und KZ-Gedenkstätte Ebensee (Museum for Contemporary History and Ebensee Memorial), no. 148 (December 2023).
Eleonore Lappin-Eppel: Ungarisch-jüdische Zwangsarbeiter und Zwangsarbeiterinnen in Österreich 1944/45. Arbeitseinsätze – Todesmärsche – Folgen. [Hungarian Jewish Forced Labourers in Austria 1944/1945. Labour Deployment – Death Marches – Consequences.] Vienna 2010.
Therese Müller: Als junge ungarische Jüdin im Holocaust. Aus Jászberény durch Auschwitz, das KZ-Außenlager Walldorf beim Flughafen Frankfurt am Main, Ravensbrück, Mauthausen und Gunskirchen nach Schweden 1925–2007. [Experiencing the Holocaust as a young Hungarian Jew. From Jászberény via Auschwitz, the satellite camp Walldorf at Frankfurt am Main Airport, Ravensbrück, Mauthausen and Gunskirchen to Sweden 1925–2007.] Konstanz 2014.
Upper Austrian Provincial Archives (OÖLA), Austrian Black Cross (ÖSK) [War Graves Commission]: letter 8, Lambach police station to the security directorate in Linz and the district authority of Wels, mass grave in Hochholz, municipality of Edt bei Lambach, 16/09/1946
U.S. National Archives (NA), RG 260, IADP, PS Upper Austria, F 82, Rupertsberger, security director of Upper Austria, to the provincial military government of Upper Austria, concentration camp graves in Edt bei Lambach, district of Wels, 20/9/1946. Quoted from: Tweraser, Sie sind da, wir sind frei! Vive l'Americansky! [Kurt Tweraser, They’re here, we’re free! Long live the Americans!] In: The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) yearbook 1997.
Alexander Prenninger: Das letzte Lager. Evakuierungstransporte und Todesmärsche in der Endphase des KZ-Komplexes Mauthausen. [The Last Camp: Evacuation transports and death marches in the final phase of the Mauthausen concentration camp complex.] Mauthausen-Studien, Volume 16. Vienna 2022.
Alexander Salzmann: Literaturrecherche und Zusammenfassung des aktuellen Forschungsstandes zu ungarisch-jüdischen ZwangsarbeiterInnen am Südostwall, in Strasshof und im KZ Gunskirchen sowie Sichtung und Zusammenfassung der für das Thema relevanten Prozessakten [Literature review and summary of the current research status of Hungarian Jewish forced labourers at the Südostwall, in Strasshof and at Gunskirchen concentration camp, as well as review and summary of the relevant case files for the topic]. Final report on behalf of the Verein für Gedenken und Geschichtsforschung in österreichischen KZ-Gedenkstätten (Organisation for Remembrance and Historical Research in Austria’s Concentration Camp Memorials). Vienna 2012.
Angelika Schlackl: KZ Gunskirchen – ‘Waldlager’. [Gunskirchen concentration camp – ‘the forest camp’.] In: betrifft widerstand [regarding resistance], the journal published by the Zeitgeschichte Museum und KZ-Gedenkstätte Ebensee (Museum for Contemporary History and Ebensee Memorial), no. 148 (December 2023).
Angelika Schlackl: Das Judenlager im Wald und wovon man nicht spricht. [The Jewish camp in the forest and what we don’t talk about.] “No doubt that we have been sent here to die.” Eva Edith Eger, unpublished manuscript, St. Marien 2026.
Angelika Schlackl: Das Judenlager im Wald und wovon man nicht lieber spricht. [The Jewish camp in the forest and what we rather not talk about.] Unpublished work 2023.
Angelika Schlackl: GO THERE AND REMEMBER. Brochure to accompany GO THERE AND REMEMBER – a three-day hike remembering the death marches from Mauthausen/Gusen to Gunskirchen. KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen/Mauthausen Memorial 2025.
Thorsten Schmitz: Lebenslang [Lifelong]. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 27/28 December 2014. According to Angelika Schlackl: KZ Gunskirchen – ‘Waldlager’. [Gunskirchen concentration camp – ‘the forest camp’.] In: betrifft widerstand. [regarding resistance.] The journal published by the Zeitgeschichte Museum und KZ-Gedenkstätte Ebensee (Museum for Contemporary History and Ebensee Memorial), no. 148 (December 2023).
Claudia Theune: Report on the archaeological survey on the site of the former Gunskirchen concentration camp/satellite camp. Task number: 51115.11.1, not published. Vienna 2011. Following: Theune 2020.
USHMM: RG-50.462.0239. Oral history interview with Bernard Freilich. The Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC 1984.
USC Shoah Foundation: Interview 15962. Oral history interview with Michael Kraus. Interview by Jill Greenberg. Visual History Archive. USC Shoah Foundation. Los Angeles 2006.
USHMM: RG-50.166.0005. Oral history interview with Horace Berry. The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust and South Carolina Educational Television. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC 1991.
USHMM: RG-50.233.0003. Oral history interview with Helen Balsam. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ID Card Project. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC 1992.
USHMM: RG-50.233.0004. Oral history interview with Irving Balsam. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ID Card Project. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC 1992.
USHMM: RG-50.477.0110. Oral history interview with Floyd Dade. The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC 1996.
USHMM: RG-50.477.0123. Oral history interview with Edith Eva Eger. The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC 1992.
USHMM: RG-50.477.1479. Oral history interview with George Heller. The Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC 2006.
USHMM: RG-50.583.0019. Oral history interview with Nicholas Halmay. The Australian Jewish Historical Society. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC [undated].
USHMM: RG-60.1269. War victims; Flossenbuerg liberated; camp survivors and medics; women at Lenzing; burning belongings at 121st Evac Hospital; digging graves. National Archives & Records Administration. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC 1945.
USHMM: RG-90.245.0004. Oral history interview with Michael Kraus. Gift of Aaron and Esther Cohen. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, DC 2016.
Captured German soldiers bury the bodies of prisoners from Gunskirchen satellite camp – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #77157, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Copyright: Public Domain
Bodies of concentration camp prisoners in the forest on the site of Gunskirchen satellite camp. Taken shortly after the liberation. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #06776, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: David Ichelson
Aerial photograph of Gunskirchen satellite camp, 20 April 1945. – National Collection of Aerial Photography, Sortie 104W7C70143, Frame 4126. All rights reserved.
Interior of a barrack in the satellite camp. Photograph taken by the American liberators. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #45036, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: Stephen Adalman
Bodies discovered at the site of Gunskirchen satellite camp after the liberation by the American army. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #77158, Copyright: Public Domain
Bodies of concentration camp prisoners in the forest on the site of the Gunskirchen camp. Taken shortly after the liberation. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #12771, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: Thomas Sweeney
Bodies of former prisoners in the forest of Gunskirchen satellite camp. Taken shortly after the liberation. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #77164, Copyright: Public Domain
Foetus of a prisoner of the satellite camp who was pregnant at the time of her death. Taken shortly after the liberation. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #11638, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: John Cunnington
Bodies of murdered concentration camp prisoners. American soldiers can be seen in the background. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #12770, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: Thomas Sweeney
Bodies of concentration camp prisoners in the forest on the site of the Gunskirchen camp. Taken shortly after the liberation. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #78230, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Copyright: Public Domain
Dead prisoners laid out in several rows in a meadow near the liberated Gunskirchen satellite camp. Taken shortly after the liberation. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #77156, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: Ilona Shechter
Captured German soldiers were made to carry out clean-up work at the site of the liberated satellite camp. – U.S. Army, The Seventy-First Came … To Gunskirchen Lager, 1945, p. 22.
Probably former German soldiers digging mass graves after the liberation of Gunskirchen satellite camp. – U.S. Army, The Seventy-First Came … To Gunskirchen Lager, 1945, p. 26.
Drawing by the liberated prisoner Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso: The view from his room in the military hospital of the church tower of Gunskirchen. – Austrian Mauthausen Camp Community
Austrian civilians, survivors of Gunskirchen satellite camp and medical personnel examine the exhumed bodies of murdered concentration camp prisoners in Gunskirchen. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #11637, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: John Cunnington
Body of a guard who was killed by concentration camp prisoners. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #11639, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: John Cunnington
A guard shot by liberated concentration camp prisoners. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #11640, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: John Cunnington
Two survivors in a wooded area near Gunskirchen shortly after the liberation of the satellite camp. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #12768, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: Thomas Sweeney
Arrival of the American troops of the 71st Infantry Division of the U.S. Third Army in Gunskirchen. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #12769, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: Thomas Sweeney
Liberated women and children in one of the barracks of Gunskirchen satellite camp. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #76029, Copyright: Public Domain
Liberated prisoners of Gunskirchen satellite camp. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #77163, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A survivor of Gunskirchen satellite camp treats his leg shortly after the liberation, probably still in one of the camp barracks. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives: #78229, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Copyright: Public Domain
Willie Sterner (right) with another person during a commemoration at the site of the former Gunskirchen satellite camp, 1946 or 1947. – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives #41323, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Provenance: Willie Sterner
