Monument France

The first national memorial erected in the Memorial Park is the French memorial. In memory of the victims from France who were deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp during World War II, the French memorial was established in the international memorial park at the Mauthausen concentration camp memorial site and presented to the public on 22 September 1949. The initiative came from the Amicale des Deportées Politique de la Résistance de Mauthausen et des Commandos Dependants, the artistic design is by the architect André Bruyere and the sculptor Fritz Cremer. In the bend of the wall, there is a niche with numerous individual memorial plaques, which have been placed there by relatives over the decades.