The Future of Remembrance – Museum Simon Wiesenthal
The museum is dedicated to the legacy of Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal. After being liberated from the Mauthausen concentration camp, Wiesenthal devoted his life to tracking down Nazi war criminals and to ensuring that they were brought to justice. His motivation and working methods are examined in more detail here.
1945 marked not only the end of the Second World War, but also the beginning of Wiesenthal's work to combat forgetting and repression. He worked particularly intensively on the case of Adolf Eichmann.
THE DOCUMENTATION OF THE SEARCH FOR ADOLF EICHMANN IN WIESENTHAL'S CASE FILES (AT 6.30 PM)
Special guided tour of the museum and archive.
THE SEARCH FOR ADOLF EICHMANN IN WIESENTHAL'S LETTERS (AT 8.30 PM)
Special guided tour of the museum and archive.
ILLUMINATED. RABENSTEIG 3 AND THE HISTORY OF A VIENNESE JEWISH BOOKSTORE
The Jewish bookshop Belf was located in the building of today's Museum Simon Wiesenthal until 1938. In November 1938, the shop was looted and its owner Josef Belf was deported to the Dachau concentration camp. During this 'Long Night', a light installation will make the former bookshop’s façade visible, and the curators Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Monika Schreiber will provide insights into the exhibition on site.
