In Episode 1 erzählt Herbert Schrott seinem Enkel Sammy seine Geschichte des Überlebens und seiner Verluste während des Holocaust. Das Screening am Nordwestbahnhof, einem Areal,…
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Welturaufführung Donnerstag, 7. April 2022, 20:15 Metro Kino Wien Rudi Gelbart (1930-2018) erlebt als junger Mann die Schrecken des im Wien aufkeimenden Naziterrors und wird…
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Aba Lewit was born on June 24th, 1923 in Poland. He survived the concentration camps of Płaszów (Poland) and Mauthausen (Austria). Today is Aba Lewit’s 97th birthday.
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Today Marko Feingold would have celebrated his 107th birthday.
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Today we mourn the loss of Richard Wadani. Richard was a fighter for freedom throughout his life.He opposed the Nazi regime and was, unfortunately, one…
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We congratulate Gerhard Botz to his 79th birthday! Born on this day in 1941 he is one of the most recent Austrian historians. In our…
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This is my diary’s entry from February 1st 2019 – exactely one year ago. We where traveling to Terezin, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen and Dachau to shoot additional footage.
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Lucia Heilmann is talking about her grandfather being deported from their shared apartment in Vienna. Soon after, she has to leave school and be on the…
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The very fact that Katya’s granddaughter Vesna has a Creole mother creates its own atmosphere.
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A 12 year old and a 92 year old – the pairing with the biggest age difference.
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Most of the Viennese people were convinced german-nationalists and hunted the Jews, deported them, destroyed or stole their property. Many participated in leading functions in the Holocaust-death-factories of the Nazis.
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A small group of volunteers regularly takes care of the Jewish Cemetery in Vienna 17th district, Währing. We visited them work on November 1st, 2018.
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On 8 July 1991 Vranitzky he acknowledged a share in the responsibility for “the pain brought, not by Austria as a state, but by citizens of this country, upon other people and peoples”
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Marko M.Feingold passed on September 19th 2019 in Salzburg. He was president of the Jewish Community of Salzburg until spring 2019 and supervised the Salzburg Synagogue. He was born May 28th, 1913 and reached the age of 106 years. He was the oldest Holocaust survivor in Austria.
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The far-right Austrian magazine “Aula” has described the Jews who were liberated in Mauthausen in May 1945 as a land plague.
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Of course the series is closely connected to Austrian history, but most of the dialogues go far beyond that.
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Richard Wadani’s son emigrated to Australia over 40 years ago. Due to the long distance, he has seen his grandson only twice in his life,…
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Eine Woche waren wir unterwegs, um an den Gedenkstätten Theresienstadt, Mauthausen, Dachau und Landsberg am Lech zu drehen. Außerdem haben wir die Spuren von Katja Sturm Schnabl in Kärnten verfolgt. Wo gestern Nationalismus die Menschen terrorisiert hat, ist heute Europa.
