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Publications on the Nazi perpetrators Christian Wirth and Franz Stangl have been published
Recently, biographies (in German language) of Christian Wirth and Franz Stangl, who were involved in the crimes at the Hartheim killing center, were published by…Please be considerate on the day of remembrance
Commemoration ceremony in mindfulness and respectCommemoration ceremony at the Hartheim Castle Learning and Memorial Site
Wednesday, October 1, 2025, 5 p.m.
Memorial Site Hartheim Castle - Place for Learning and Remembrance
Hartheim Castle is located around 18 km west of Linz. The village of Hartheim belongs to the municipality of Alkoven in the Eferding district.
From 1940 - 1944 Hartheim Castle was one of six killing institutions of National Socialist euthanasia. During this time, around 30.000 people with disabilities and mental diseases, some residents of psychiatric institutions and care homes, others imprisoned in Mauthausen, Gusen, Ravensbrück and Dachau concentration camps and deemed unfit to work and forced labourers were brought here and murdered. The rooms in which the crimes took place now form part of the Memorial. There is also a cemetery on the east side of the palace, where the remains of those who were murdered were buried in 2002.
Memorial Site Hartheim Castle - Place for Learning and Remembrance, which was opened in 2003, includes, the Memorial and the Exhibition "Value of Life".
