On May 6, 2019, the Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic in Vienna took part in a commemorative ceremony on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.

Representatives of the Embassy of the Kyrgyz Republic participated in the wreaths-laying ceremony at the central monument of the concentration camp, the prisoners of which in the period 1940-1945 were also citizens of the former USSR, including Kyrgyzstan. By tradition, before the beginning of the official ceremony, wreaths were laid at the stele on the site of the former "Soviet camp", which was built by the first Soviet prisoners in 1941.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, members of the government, surviving witnesses and contemporaries, representatives of the diplomatic corps, public organizations and various religious denominations took part in the official commemorative ceremony.

In the concentration camp Mauthausen and its branches were imprisoned 335 thousand people, more than 122 thousand of them were killed or died. The camp was liberated on May 5, 1945 by American troops.

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