Chinese Ambassador Lu Yonghua on Sunday in Vienna laid a wreath at a monument commemorating Chinese victims who died at the Mauthausen concentration camp in central-north Austria more than 60 years ago.

He said that the Chinese people still bear in mind those compatriots who died at the concentration camp, and China will join hands with the rest of the world to defend global peace.

Austria's President Heinz Fischer, along with dozens of survivors of the concentration camp and representatives of various international organizations, also attended the ceremony at Mauthausen to mark the 61st anniversary of its liberation by the coalition forces in 1945.

The Mauthausen concentration camp was set up by the Nazi Germany in August 1938 to persecute Jews and other innocent people.

Source: Xinhua