Le mémorial de Mauthausen : un lieu de mémoire incontournable en Autriche

Le Mémorial de Mathausen a été construit à l’endroit où se situait le camp de concentration de Mathausen. Il rend hommage aux dizaines de milliers de victimes déportées entre 1938 et 1945. La visite, émouvante et chargée, n’en est pas moins incontournable. Vestiges de l’histoire, expositions et témoignages nous permettent de mieux comprendre les événements qui se sont déroulés au sein cet endroit. Des audio guides ainsi qu’une application à télécharger sont à disposition pour accompagner et documenter la visite sur les différents lieux du site.

For my part, I found this experience difficult and full of realism. Nevertheless, I felt that it was necessary to understand and become aware of history. The well-preserved locations and the way in which events are explained plunge us into an everyday life that is truly chilling. It's hard to believe that such places ever existed, and today this memorial pays tribute to all these victims.

With the kids: we decided to take the children to the Mathausen Memorial, and explain to our 3-year-old what he was seeing in simple, hopefully accurate words, avoiding any emotional charge linked to the place.

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