To browse Academia. Commentaries and Biographies. A minimum of 90, prisoners were murdered between August and May in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp or one of its subcamps, or died immediately after liberation from the consequences of their detention. The remembrance of the dead is one of the most essential obligations and missions of the Memorial; but it is also an obligation of society and a common cause - pursuing the legacy of the survivors - to remember the dead of the concentration camps.
In two volumes, the names and personal data of more than 84, people are being listed, whose identity could be reconstructed in long years of research, with the spelling of the names matching the spelling in their country of origin. Many persons and international institutions participated in this project in an extraordinary international cooperation - survivors and associations of survivors, scientific institutions and archives, researchers, as well as relatives of victims and many embassies of their countries of origin.
In scientific articles information is provided on the history of the project and on editorial decisions, historical backgrounds are illuminated and the project is being placed in the larger context of remembering the dead of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp and its subcamps. In the second segment of the companion volume, more than personal, scientific and literary biographies are published, written by more than project partners concerning persons who were murdered in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp or one of its subcamps or died as a consequence of their detention.
Volume 1: Commentaries and Biographies, Yet what can we do to remember them? It seems to me, all that remains is for each one of us to try to commemorate one death, one single person. In contrast, numbers and graphic visualisations of statistical relationships do little to generate a picture of events and are difficult to integrate into concrete forms of commemoration.
Many survivors have described this inadequacy and the stark nature of statistical representations in apposite terms. Nevertheless, it is necessary to integrate this perspective, i. The main camp and an adjoining quarry had served the extraction of the rich granite deposits in the Upper Palatinate by Deutsche Erd-und Steinwerke DESt , one of the SS's economic enterprises.
