A documentary exhibition Holocaust: destruction, liberation, salvation opens on April 6, 2019 at the University of Innsbruck.
The exhibition curator Ilya Altman is a Russian historian, founder and co-chairman of the Holocaust Research and Educational Center, vice president of the Holocaust Interregional Foundation, advisor to the president of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) and professor at the Russian State Humanitarian University. Altman will present the exhibition and conduct a tour of it.
The exhibition, which will be opened until May 3, has been prepared by the Holocaust Research and Education Center and RJC under a grant from the President of Russia with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rossotrudnichestvo, the Claims Conference and the Genesis Foundation. Institute of History and European Ethnology in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary History, the Innsbruck University Library, the Russian Center and the Center for Austrian-Israeli Academic Cooperation of the University of Innsbruck organised the exhibition.
The exhibition has already been presented in many languages of the world (including German), on four continents, at the headquarters of the UN and UNESCO, at the Council of Europe, the parliaments of Russia, Argentina, Israel, Uruguay, the Czech Republic, and the city administrations of Moscow and Berlin.
The exposition reveals the scope and characteristics of the Holocaust in the occupied territory of the Soviet Union, and also shows the role of the Red Army in saving the Jews in Europe. Special stands tell the story of salvation of the leaders of the Jewish community of Germany before and after the war (Leo Beck and Ignats Bubis), the fate of the Jews of Austria and Germany in the occupied territory of the USSR, as well as the memorialization of the memory of the victims of the Holocaust in Minsk and Maluy Trostyanets.
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