Pic.: Sigmund Glatz, "Manifestation on
May 1st, 1945".
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Pic.: Sigmund Glatz, "Manifestation on
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The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance
(DÖW) was founded by former resistance fighters, persecuted people,
and committed scholars in Vienna in 1963. The extensive inventory of the
DÖW also hosts about 200 artworks. These are important documents
of the traumatic experience and irrepressible desire for freedom of a
generation that was confronted with two cataclysmic wars and two authoritarian
regimes—Austrofascism and National Socialism. The selected exhibits
of this exhibition provide insight into different fates, journeys through
life full of fear, traumata, and in part heroic commitment. Many of them
are direct testimonies of imprisonment in a concentration camp, war-related
events, escape, and exile. |
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