Online media event “News from Auschwitz” | Salzburg Museum, 01/20/2022
Salzburg – On the occasion of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp on January 27, 1945, the Salzburg Museum invites you to a press conference.
In October 2021, the new Austria exhibition was opened in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. There, visitors can create texts or drawings in a digital guest book, which then disappear in order to “appear” again at an exhibition location in Austria. In this way a connection is made between the two places. The exhibition is a reminder that many people from Austria were interned or murdered in Auschwitz, but also that people from Austria made the murderous use of violence possible.
The virtual guest book WILL be shown temporarily at various Austrian locations. The Salzburg Museum was chosen as the first location for this by the exhibition team.
Online media event “News from Auschwitz”
Interlocutors:
Martin Hochleitner, director of the Salzburg Museum
Albert Lichtblau, historian, scientific director of the Austria exhibition in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Hannes Sulzenbacher, exhibition designer, QWien, curator and project manager of the Austria exhibition in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Karoline Bankosegger, teacher at the Akademisches Gymnasium Salzburg
Date: 01/27/2022, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m
Location: Salzburg, Austria
Questions & contact:
Nathalie Fox
Head of Public Relations
Salzburg Museum
Tel. 0650 3007567
M natalie.fuchs@salzburgmuseum.at