End of Testimony?

The era of living Holocaust survivors is drawing to a close. Only few remain to speak from their personal experience – or to tell the stories of those, who were murdered in the Holocaust. What remains, apart from literary reports, are countless video and audio interviews given by the survivors, as well as the question: How do societies make use of this legacy in the future? 

The exhibition “End of Testimony”, which can be seen on the House of Austrian History’s Alma Rosé-Plateau from the 27th of January 2023, explores the complex relationship between survivors and their interviewers. It does not merely question the way these interviews are made, or reinterpret different forms of narrated memory and its social role since 1945 within the context of current change, but also discusses approaches for a sensitive and reflective treatment of such reports in the future.  

An exhibition of the Jewish Museum Hohenems and the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial, in cooperation with the House of Austrian History.

In cooperation with:

_erinnern.at_ 

Austrian Film Museum 

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Digital History 

Director hdgö: Monika Sommer (Wien) | Overall project management, curator: Anika Reichwald (Hohenems) | Co-curators: Miriam Bürer, Hanno Loewy (Hohenems), Johannes Lauer, Julius Scharnetzky, Christa Schikorra, Jörg Skriebeleit (Flossenbürg) | Scientific research: Franziska Völlner, Fabian Wimmer (Hohenems), Annika Scharnagl (Flossenbürg) | Exhibition design and graphic: Atelier Stecher (Götzis), Roland Stecher, Thomas Matt | Exhibition coordinator: Anna Bausch (Wien) | Education: Louise Beckershaus, Markus Fösl, Nikolaus Kowarz, Katharina Kraus, Eva Meran, Antonia Plessing, Markus Sampt, Benjamin Schlöglhofer, Franziska Wohlmuth (Wien) | Conservation and Restoration: Petra Süß (Wien) | Public Relations: Ann Cathrin Frank, Ildiko Füredi-Kolarik, Lorenz Paulus (Wien) | Social Media: Louise Beckershaus, Katharina Kraus (Wien) | Translation: Lilian Dombrowski (Ra'anana) | Exhibition production and Installation: museom service gmbh (Wien) | AV installation: Dietmar Pfanner Veranstaltungstechnik (Andelsbuch) | AV editing: Christian Trutz (Marl) | Glass works:​​​​​​​ Längle Glas-System GmbH (Götzis) | Acryl works: blenke design (Hohenems) | Metal works: Heinz Duwe Schlossermeister (Mäder) | Mouldings:​​​​​​​ Gunz CNC Fertigung (Dornbirn) | Carpentry: Raidel GmbH Tischlerei (Mäder) | Foil cutting and printing:​​​​​​​ museom service gmbh (Wien), Max Wilmeroth (Augsburg)

Our special thanks goes

above all to the contemporary witnesses,

our cooperation partner: OeAD Programm _erinnern.at_,

all lenders,

as well as the Association of Jewish Refugees, the Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, the Mauthausen Concentration Camp Memorial, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum und the Visual History Archive des USC Shoah Foundation Institute for providing the interviews.