Exhibition Opening
Welcome: Monika Pessler, Director (in German)
On the exhibition: Daniela Finzi and Johanna Frei, Curators of the Exhibition (in German)
"Out of the Shadows: Remembering the Sisters of Sigmund Freud": Roger Waldinger (in English)
"A Moment in Treblinka, 1942": Philippe Sands (in English)
Thursday, October 23, 7pm
Sigmund Freud Museum
Registration required: Registration is possible from September 25.
We cordially invite to the opening of the special exhibition: “Documents of Injustice. The Case of Freud" sheds light on the last months of the Freud family in Nazi Vienna and recounts the events of the following years. The systematic dispossession of Sigmund Freud and his brother Alexander is traced in detail, and new findings deepen the knowledge of the fate and murder of their four sisters, Rosa, Maria, Adolfine, and Pauline, by the Nazi regime.
As part of the opening, Roger Waldinger, whose research on the fate of his great-grandmother (and Freud's sister) Paula Winternitz is a significant contribution to the exhibition, will give a lecture in English. Philippe Sands, author and lawyer, will deliver short remarks on the events in Treblinka, where Freud's sisters were murdered. Learn more about the exhibition
Roger Waldinger is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Waldinger has published nine books, most recently Origins and Destinations: The Making of the Second Generation, co-authored with Renee Luthra and Thomas Soehl (Russell Sage Foundation Press: 2018); A Century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and their Homeland Connections (co-edited with Nancy Green; University of Illinois Press, 2016); and The Cross-Border Connection: Immigrants, Emigrants, and their Homelands (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).
Philippe Sands is a British and French writer, lawyer and Professor of International Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London. His cases include that against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. In 2025, he published 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia (in German: Die Verschwundenen von Londres 38). Sands’ family roots are in Lviv, where most of his family was murdered during the Second World War. In 2020, The Ratline was published in German as Die Rattenlinie – ein Nazi auf der Flucht and in 2017 Rückkehr nach Lemberg (original 2016: East West Street), which won the Baillie Gifford Prize and Wingate Literary Prize 2016 and was named Book of the Year by the British Book Awards 2017.
