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The purpose of this project is to collect all of the profiles of displaced persons or Holocaust Survivors who were residents of the Ebensee Displaced Persons Camp. This camp was located on the site of the Ebensee Concentration Camp, which was part of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria.
History of the camp
In 1943, the SS established Ebensee concentration camp (codename "Zement") near the town, a planned emergency location for the Peenemünde research centre after the RAF Operation Hydra attack. It was part of the Mauthausen network. Slave laborers were worked to death digging tunnels for armaments storage. The camp was liberated by American soldiers in May 1945. Due to the extremely high death rates, Ebensee is considered one of the most horrific Nazi concentration camps.
Used as a Displaced Persons camp after the war, the area is today site of a memorial and a museum.