Mauthausen Memorial Linz

Left Austria today and headed to Prague. We stopped at a concentration camp on the way and had look at what happened there during world war 2. Got into Prague around 6pm and caught the tram into the city for dinner at 8pm. Dinner was traditional goulash with beef, different but not bad. After dinner there was a quick walking tour around the city …

We arrived in Linz and after a long time of searching we couldn't find our hostel anywhere! We approached some locals who were very helpful. They couldn't speak a word of English but phoned the number for us and got all the other locals involved! So they directed us where to go and it was more of a hotel! We had a lone chinese girl in our 4 bed …

After and adventure-filled week with my Aunt and Uncle, we left Guntramsdorf and drove to Mauthausen Concentration Camp. What a sobering experience! Throughout occupied Europe, there were 1,226 main camps, 1,011 auxilliary camps and 114 extermination camps. I had no idea so many camps existed!

Mauthausen was the central camp in Austria …