Competition 2018

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 labor 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 follows the paths of the victims and perpetrators all the way to the Lech and sheds light on their different paths and stories.

Exhibition design and realization: Wolfgang Hauck

The exhibition was shown as an installation in the columned hall in Landsberg am Lech and in a smaller format as a roll-up in the foyer of Landsberg town hall.
It has been on show as a traveling exhibition in the USA since 2019.