Liberation! New Beginning?
Life After the Concentration Camp
February 16, 2025
The liberation of the concentration camps by the Allies in 1944/45 marks a key moment in the history of the 20th century. 80 years later, the Mauthausen Memorial and the Austrian Film Museum dedicate a collaborative film series to this historical event and its aftermath, free to the public and with introductions. What did the new beginning mean after the horror of the mass destruction? With five outstanding films, the social and individual dimensions of this question will be exemplarily investigated between February and June 2025. The series Liberation! New Beginning? opens with a neglected masterpiece of Holocaust cinema: L'heure de la vérité by Henri Calef (1965). (Christoph Huber / Translation: Ted Fendt)
In collaboration with Mauthausen Memorial
The liberation of the concentration camps by the Allies in 1944/45 marks a key moment in the history of the 20th century. 80 years later, the Mauthausen Memorial and the Austrian Film Museum dedicate a collaborative film series to this historical event and its aftermath, free to the public and with introductions. What did the new beginning mean after the horror of the mass destruction? With five outstanding films, the social and individual dimensions of this question will be exemplarily investigated between February and June 2025. The series Liberation! New Beginning? opens with a neglected masterpiece of Holocaust cinema: L'heure de la vérité by Henri Calef (1965). (Christoph Huber / Translation: Ted Fendt)
In collaboration with Mauthausen Memorial
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For each series, films are listed in screening order.
