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Fotograph by Herwig Mayer, in the catalogue: Das Gedächtnis von Mauthausen [The Memory of Mauthausen] 2004

Fotograph by Herwig Mayer, in the catalogue: Das Gedächtnis von Mauthausen [The Memory of Mauthausen] 2004

Mauthausen erzählen - Narrating Mauthausen, Videoausstellung, designed by Gerhard Botz ( Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Contemporary History, Vienna), Helga Amesberger und Brigitte Halbmayr (Institute of Conflict Research, Vienna), Christian Sturmberger, Bernadette Dewald and others, Visitors Centre Mauthausen, 2003
IIn the course of the opening of the new Visitors Centre in Mauthausen a selection of 20 video-interviews was presented in an exhibition. During 2001/02 the Mauthausen Survivors Documentation Project (MSDP) had gathered 838 interviews, 91 on digital picture carriers. The concept for the videografic intakes resorted to the knowledge of the Video Archive Ravensbrück and the Shoah Foundation. The intention was to downsize the influence of the camera’s presence to a possible minimum. Prior aim was a compilation of a broad spectrum of narrations of memory. |read more,,, |

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