Documents of Injustice. The Case of Freud

October 24, 2025 - November 9, 2026 at the Sigmund Freud Museum

The upcoming special exhibition “Documents of Injustice. The Case of Freud,” recounts the final months of the Freud family in Nazi occupied Vienna. It depicts the plundering of Sigmund Freud and his brother Alexander, the disenfranchisement of the entire family, and the murder of his sisters who remained in Vienna. A central element of the exhibition are previously unpublished court documents: files from the post-war trial of the “provisional administrator” of Sigmund Freud's estate, who had been appointed by the Nazis. Thanks to these records and with the help of other original documents from the Nazi era that have never been shown before, it is possible to trace how Freud and his family were systematically and meticulously robbed and deprived of their rights. The story of the Freud family illustrates the systematic nature of the totalitarian and perfidious Nazi administration, while at the same time recounting the personal fates of family members—from their efforts to go into exile themselves to their desperate attempts to save the lives of their close relatives. The fates of the family members in Vienna and in exile are traced through personal records of Freud's sisters and oral history interviews with Viennese women who cared for the elderly women.