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From: rahd@magnet.at (Rudolf A. HAUNSCHMIED)
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Subject: KZ GUSEN I, II & III Commemoration 96
Date: 24 Apr 1996 11:48:01 GMT
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Former KZ GUSEN I, II & III Concentration Camps
INVITATION to Local-International COMMEMORATION
 
The local-international Plattform 75 JAHRE REPUBLIK
together with AMICALE FRANCAISE DE MAUTHAUSEN,
Comite International du Souvenier du Camp de Gusen, Paris
and A.N.E.D.- ITALIA invite all people of good will
to take part in the 
 
Second
LOCAL-INTERNATIONAL COMMEMORATION
dedicated to the victims and survivors of the former
KL Gusen I, II & III Concentration Camp Complex
and their families
 
at the
MEMORIAL CREMATORIUM KZ GUSEN, 
A-4222 Langenstein, Austria 
 
Date:	Friday, May 4, 1996 A.D. 
Time:	05.30 p.m. 
 
Program (preliminary):

	Reception of delegations with fanfare-music composed
	for the 50th Anniversary of the liberation in 1995

	Welcoming address of representative of local population

	Musical piece played by local musicians to honour
	the approx. 40.000 (!) victims of this big and most horrible complex,
	the survivors and their relatives from all around the world.

	Official commemorative addresses by

		-- Polish,
		-- French,
		-- Slovene,
		-- Russian,
		-- Italian and
		-- Jewish

		representatives.

	Exchange of printed statement "AWAKE & BE AWARE - ACROSS ALL BORDERS !"
	in 20 national languages among participants and national delegations

	Joint, silent march into the GUSEN-MEMORIAL to lay down the participants
flowers
	from all over Europe to the music of the Guzinsky-March, being composed
within this
	former extermination camp complex for political prisoners and Jewish people
(the latest
	being deported directly from KL Auschwitz B to die in the "Hell of Hells" by
excavating
	the KL Gusen II underground installations.

	----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

For more information or scientific contribution, please contact

ARBEITSKREIS FUER HEIMAT-, DENKMAL- UND GESCHICHTSPFLEGE
within the Local-International Plattform 75 JAHRE REPUBLIK
-- from a horrible past to a peaceful & prosperous future --

via e.mail at:	rahd@magnet.at




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