The Intervention “Liberation 1945 – Open Ending, Fragile Future” in the preview of the online collection

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In the preview of our online collection, you can discover objects related to the liberation of 1945, the founding of the Second Republic, and the political and societal changes of the years that followed, all in light of the anniversary year 2025.

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Chair from a NSV mothers’ convalescent home in St. Gilgen, 1941/1946

Lamp from a NSV mothers’ convalescent home in St. Gilgen, 1941/1949

CARE package with contents, ca. 1946

Photograph of “Ravensbrück Women”, 1946/1947

Windup tin rabbit from the US occupation zone, 1947/1959

Typewriter used to translate the Marshall Plan, 1948

Embroidered tablecloth made from a European Recovery Program food sack, ca. 1948

Official certificate for Berta Lauscher (née Grubhofer), 1950

Typescript “An account of persecution. As a Hungarian political refugee in Switzerland” by Stefan Presser, 1954