It is located in the Three Cultures Garden (Spanish: Jardín de las Tres Culturas) in Juan Carlos I Park.

Mauthausen held thousands of Spanish political prisoners who opposed the Franco regime.

[1] On 28 April 2005, the week of the anniversary of the liberation, the Madrid City Council unanimously approved the establishment of a Holocaust memorial.

[5] The monument was created by sculptor Samuel Nahon Bengio, an Israeli of Sephardic Jewish descent.

[6] On one side of the platform is a sculpture made of wooden railroad ties of a father holding his son in his arms.