Hidden just beyond this tranquil setting were the remembrances of tragic times......

We hiked down to the work area where inmates were forced to dig.......doing meaningless & cruel hard labor:

The reality of the tragedy became more and more difficult to comprehend...

Hard to believe....
but there was a happy ending to our story!!!

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Dear Marie,
Memories from your meeting with the french resistant deportee Jean MONIN at the concentration camp of Mauthausen. September 2010
Best regards
Isabelle GARDIN, France

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