The texts on the individual sections of the exhibition available here allow for a more in-depth exploration of the individual themes featured in the exhibition and beyond. They will be added to on an ongoing basis.

Collection of selected biographies of Austrians who were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau; some of them did not survive the camp. Further stories are regularly added to the collection.

Collection of biographies of Austrians who belonged to the guard force or SS command in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex. Further biographies are regularly added to the collection.

Even before the surrender of the German Wehrmacht, representatives of the re-established or newly-founded parties SPÖ (Austrian Socialist Party), ÖVP (Austrian People’s Party) and KPÖ (Austrian Communist Party) declared the “Anschluss” null and void and proclaimed Austrian independence in Vienna on 27 April 1945; the Provisional State Government convened on the same day.