The exhibitions

In the exhibition Maly Trascjanec: Transformations of an Extermination Site, the Osnabrück students Peter Kamp, Tatjana Rykov, Rukia Soubbotina and Charlotte Vöhl take an analytical look at the transformation processes of the site and its surroundings over time. In the two time periods from 1941 to 1944 and from 1944 to the present, the students were able to determine and decipher numerous layers of the site’s transformation. The overall picture thus provides a comprehensive explanation of the present-day appearance of Maly Trascjanec.

In the exhibition Maly Trascjanec: The Сulture of Remembrance, the Osnabrück students Michelle Ostermaier, Kristin Waßmann and Ron Wilke deal with questions of the remembrance-cultural configuration and presence of the site and the acts committed there. They precisely trace the various phases of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods as well as the growing interest in making the violent site visible and also make explicitly clear which processes were necessary to allow the memorial site with its various manifestations to emerge in its present form.

For their exhibition Maly Trascjanec: The Perpetrators, the Osnabrück students Nils Kaschubat, Johanna Schweppe, Paulin Wandschneider and Frank Wobig researched hundreds of pages of source material from post-war trial files in which the perpetrators of the murders in Maly Trascjanec were heard. Based on the biographies and descriptions of the trial origins and outcomes, they provide a picture of the milieus and contexts of origin from which the men came and critically question how "normal" their lives were.

The Viennese students Claudia Adebayo, Judith Alberth, Sarah Appl, Tina Baumann, Max Berghof, Francesco Bisaccia, Julia Greithanner, Jürgen Gruber, Melissa Gruber, Peter Hinterndorfer, Lena Hummer, Maximilian Karner, Max Neuhold, Lisa Reicher and Astrid Striessnig created the exhibition Path of Remembrance I. Deprivation of Rights in Vienna and Deportation to the East. In the three parts of the exhibition, they answer questions about the implementation of "Aryanisation" via the establishment of "collection camps" in Vienna from the perspective of the persecuted, follow their path via the deportation transports and finally address the deportation goals.

The exhibition Path of Remembrance II. Persecution and Extermination in Maly Tracjanec by the Viennese students Arlo Newton Kleewein, Raphael Günter Kräuter, Johannes Mayer, Ruben Elias Oppenrieder, Anna Schantl, Konstantin Schischka, Stefan Schranz, Viktoria Schwammel and Teresa Unger deals with the sites of persecution and extermination in Minsk and Maly Trascjanec. The authors also focus on the different groups of victims and a critical examination of archaeological finds and material traces on site.

The third Viennese exhibition Path of Remembrance III. Remembering Maly Trascjanec already reveals its content in its name. The students Nils Braune, Katharina Burger, Franziska Schappacher, Antonia Titze, Pia Maria Ebner, Bastian Kammerer, Florian Sprenger, Romy Stumpe, Marlene Berger, Verena Radner, Sophie Charlotte Wenkel, Florian Christoph Hladky, Paul Kathrein, Jana Viktorija Sobek and Astrid Wenz divided their exhibition into four parts: in the first part, they critically examine the so-called "Seiler’s Report". For the second part of the exhibition, students from the University of Vienna conducted interviews with the descendants of victims. The third section of the exhibition is dedicated to post-war justice in relation to the crimes of Maly Trasjanec, before the last section deals with the culture of remembrance (in Austria and elsewhere) in relation to Maly Trasjanec.