Concentration Camp Survivor Daniel Chanoch Has Passed Away

ORF, September 20, 2024

German original: https://ooe.orf.at/stories/3275300/Daniel Chanoch, who was born in Lithuania and survived six Nazi concentration camps, has passed away at the age of 92. Chanoch had expressed the wish to see a memorial erected at the site of the former Gunskirchen subcamp in Upper Austria, the Mauthausen Committee reported in a press release on Tuesday.

Chanoch was also deported by the Nazis to the concentration camps in Dachau, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Mauthausen. He described Gunskirchen as “hell on earth” and persistently campaigned for the establishment of a memorial.

“We will do everything in our power to fulfill Daniel Chanoch's wish for a memorial in Gunskirchen. Our thoughts are with his family in these difficult hours,” said Willi Mernyi, chairman of the Austrian Mauthausen Committee, in a statement.