The exhibition “From Lithuania to Landsberg” was shown in 2018 at the Säulenhalle in Landsberg and in 2019 at Boston College in Boston (USA).

It is currently on tour as a traveling exhibition at other universities in the USA.

You can explore the exhibition digitally with 360° documentation.

An exhibition by Karla Schönebeck (concept, and text) and Wolfgang Hauck (design and realization).

INTRODUCTION

From Lithuania to Landsberg

The exhibition ‘From Lithuania to Landsberg’ is dedicated to the fates of the 23,000 Jewish deportees who were deported to Kaufering near Landsberg in the summer of 1944. It explores their different origins and the shared suffering they experienced at the hands of the Nazi regime and traces the connections and differences between the various groups of victims from Europe.

In the summer of 1944, 23,000 Jewish people were brought to Kaufering near Landsberg to perform forced labour for the Nazi armaments industry under terrible conditions. The exhibition ‘From Lithuania to Landsberg’ focuses in particular on the victims from Lithuania, Hungary and Poland and their experiences after liberation in April 1945 in the Landsberg DP camp and the St. Ottilien DP hospital. It examines how these groups were in contact with survivors from other countries such as France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia and other European states and how their experiences differed. The exhibition traces the paths of the victims and perpetrators all the way to the Lech and sheds light on their different paths and stories.