Vienna (OTS) – On Tuesday, June 25, 2024 at 10 a.m., Justice Minister Alma Zadić will open the permanent exhibition “You can directly hear them die” at the memorial for the victims of the Nazi justice system at the Vienna Regional Court for Criminal Matters. The memorial is located in the former execution room, where around 1,200 women and men were beheaded with the guillotine during the Nazi era. The permanent exhibition in the anteroom to the memorial was curated on behalf of the BMJ by the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance and the Association for the History of Justice and the Rule of Law.
The traveling exhibition “The Rosenburg – The German Federal Ministry of Justice in the Shadow of the Nazi Past” will also be opening and will be on display in the entrance hall of the Vienna Palace of Justice until August 2, 2024. The traveling exhibition is part of the examination of the National Socialist background of numerous employees of the German Federal Ministry of Justice in Bonn after 1945.
Time: Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 10:00 a.m
Ort: Regional Court for Criminal Matters, Large Jury Courtroom, Landesgerichtsstraße 11, 1080 Vienna
Media representatives are cordially invited to the opening.
NOTES ON MEDIA PARTICIPATION
Please register at akkreditierungs@bmj.gv.at by Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 8:00 a.m. at the latest.
Admission to the opening is possible from 9:30 a.m. Please allow enough time for the security gate.
AVISO – TUE, June 25th, 10:00 a.m.: Zadić opens the permanent exhibition at the memorial for victims of the Nazi justice system
Datum: June 25, 2024, 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m
Ort: Regional Court for Criminal Matters, Large Jury Courtroom
Landesgerichtsstraße 11, 1080 Vienna, Austria
Questions & Contact:
Federal Ministry of Justice
Magdalena Stern
Press spokesperson for the Minister of Justice
0676 8989 1 2320
magdalena.stern@bmj.gv.at