60 ANNIVERSARY OF KL MAUTHAUSEN LIBERATION
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On 7th and 8th of May, delegation of Stutthof Museum including: dr hab.
Marek Orski (head of delegation), dr Danuta Drywa, and mgr El¿bieta Grot,
took part in ceremony of 60 anniversary of Mauthausen and Mauthausen-Gusen
concentration camp Liberation. Participation of Museum's delegation was
one of the forms of cooperation of camp Gusen scientific-research team
consisting of employees of Stutthof Museum, and University of Bydgoszcz
with the KZ Gusen Memorial Committee. Journey and stay of the delegation
was financed by the committee.
Participants of manifestation in Gusen had the chance to see in the so-called
'Besucherzentrum', built in the place of previous Memorial, the first
part of photographic exposition 'Traces - fragments - reconstructions'
devoted to commemoration of the camp. On the request of the social group
of memory - Gedenkdienstkomitee, dr hab. Marek Orski, coordinator of research
in Poland, has published a study related to the last period of the Mauthausen-Gusen
camp, taking into consideration a rich photographic sources and variety
of former prisoners' relations. The study was called 'The last days of
Mauthausen-Gusen camp' was published also in English.
On 9th of May, the delegation performed archive query in the Archive of
Home Office in vienna, Austria, concentrating the research on the Stutthof,
Mauthausen-Gusen and the whole system of concentration camps. During the
research, a meeting was organised with Mag. Ludwig Zwickl - director of
IV/7/a section, Gedenkstaetten in Home Office and group of archivists-historians
who perform similar research for Home Office.
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