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In the garden of the Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue, four exhibits from the exhibition \"Against forgetting<\/strong>\" by Luigi Toscano have found a new home. The portraits of Eleanor Chroman, Eva Gewitsch, Viktor Klein<\/strong> and Zdislaw Swiniarski<\/strong> are accessible to all visitors as a permanent installation.
\nWith this initiative, the Kreisky Forum is echoing the words of Susan Cernyak-Spatz, a 96-year-old US-American and Auschwitz survivor born in Vienna: \u201cIf we forget the past, we are condemned to repeat it\u201c.<\/em><\/p>\n

The installation \"Against Forgetting\" shows large portrait photos of survivors of Nazi persecution.<\/p>\n

The photo exhibition was initiated by the German-Italian photographer and filmmaker Luigi Toscano. Toscano took portraits of more than 300 survivors for his project and exhibited these approximately two-metre-high portraits in several cities in Europe and the USA. In May, the pictures were also on display on Vienna's Ringstrasse in front of Heldenplatz.<\/p>\n

The exhibition in Vienna was severely desecrated several times. Less than three days after the opening, the pictures were cut up with a knife for the first time, followed a few days later by graffiti in the form of swastikas. In the course of a third attack on the installation on 27 May, several portraits were extensively vandalised. Using knives, unknown perpetrators shredded seven of the larger-than-life photos of Jews, Roma and Sinti, Russian prisoners of war and other people persecuted by the Nazis, rendering the faces unrecognisable. The cut-off parts of the faces hung down like shreds of skin.<\/p>\n

Subsequently, spontaneous vigils from the ranks of civil society guarded the exhibition around the clock until it was dismantled. The destroyed pictures were restored.<\/p>\n

\"Viktor

Viktor Klein<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Eva

Eva Gewitsch<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Elanor

Elanor Chroman<\/p><\/div>\n

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