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KZ. Mauthausen, Bild und Wort [Mauthausen Concentration Camp, words and pictures], by Simon Wiesenthal. Linz-Vienna: Ibis, 1946. German. Simon Wiesenthal's memoirs of the Mauthausen concentration camp, with illustrations and photo-collages by Wiesenthal, portraying the atrocities which Wiesenthal experienced in this concentration camp. Tens of drawings signed in the plate and dated 1945. Simon Wiesenthal ("Nazi Hunter", 1908-2005), a Jewish architect, holocaust survivor, who devoted his life to track down and gather information on alleged Nazi war criminals with the intention of using the material at trials on charges of war crimes. Wiesenthal was moved during WWII through various concentration camps. In 1945 he arrived in Mauthausen and somehow survived until the camp was liberated. After his release he started to work for the United States Army in gathering material about Nazi war criminals. In 1947 he founded "The Center for Jewish Documentation" in Linz, Austria. Due to lack of interest in suing Nazi war criminals the center was closed but Wiesenthal continued privately to collect and document material about Nazi criminals. [114] pp, 30 cm. Good condition. Minor foxing-marks, damages to binding. Dedication preceding title page. Attached: a personal calling card of Wiesenthal, with his signature (handwritten); "Bulletin of Information No. 24" of theDokumentationszentrum des Bundes Judischer Verfolgter des Naziregimes, January 1984. From the collection of Arnie Druck.