In the week of Holocaust Remembrance Day, KF Rome pays special attention to the history of the Mauthausen concentration camp:
Starting on January 25, the Cultural Forum will present online the new film “Mauthausen – Two Lives” by Austrian director Simon Wieland. The film documents the story of two people who witnessed the horrific events at Mauthausen concentration camp during the Nazi regime – Stanisław Leszczyński, born in Łódź, as a prisoner, and Franz Hackl, a native of Mauthausen, as an apprentice in the camp’s locksmith shop. Two fates that could not have been more contrary – and yet have so many disturbing similarities.
https://filminstitut.at/filme/mauthausenzweileben
Starting on January 28, KF Director Georg Schnetzer’s conversation with the president of the Italian Association of Ex-Deportees in Nazi Camps (ANED), Dario Venegoni, will be posted online. Venegoni sheds particular light on the fate of the many Italian prisoners who became victims of the Nazi extermination machinery in Mauthausen and its subcamps.
http://www.deportati.it/
