At least 4.874 camp prisoners died in the camp or at the construction site, and more than 3.500 corpses were burned in the crematorium which was built for that reason in the fall of 1944. The former crematorium building was declared a public monument in 1962 and has been the home of the Melk concentration camp memorial ever since. The current contemporary historical exhibition in the rooms of the memorial was created by Bertrand Perz and Gottfried Fliedl in the early 1990s. Since 1994 the association “MERKwürdig. Eine Veranstaltungsreihe wider Gewalt und Vergessen” (reMARKable – event series against violence and oblivion) has been in charge of the memorial. MERKwürdig also regularly organizes events with which they strive to deal in a critical way with topics like violence, racism and right-wing extremism.

Under “downloads” you find references and important general reading material (available in German, English, French and Italian) concerning the history of the satellite camp of Melk for a free download.