fragments of resistance

Click on one of the dots, to hear personal recollections  of resistance fighters.

Legend:

A = Sandleiten
- Paul Vodicka

B = Sabotage
- Helene Neuhaus

C = Die Wahrheit
- Heinrich Klein

D = Sicheheitsdienst
- Paul Vodicka

E = Libertador B24
- BBC Soundlibrary

F = Entwaffnung
- Heinrich Klein

On a so-called war damage map from the Vienna City Archives, you can listen to the personal recollections of resistance fighters Paul Vodicka, Helene Neuhaus and Heinrich Klein via audio jacks. This work is intended to raise awareness of events that often receive little or no mention in Austrian historiography.

In the summer of 2019, a friend put me in touch with Paul Vodicka. After an intensive period of research, I arranged a meeting and interviewed him about his childhood, the resistance and the post- war period. What I remember most about him is his great sense of humor and his charismatic personality.

As part of my bachelor thesis titled „What contribution did Austrian resistance fighters make to the liberation of Vienna in 1945?“, I reaserched about the forms and in extends of Austrian resistance againts the Nazi regime. The structure of the thesis consists two main chapters: „Historical Overview“ and „Work in the Underground“, which will serve as the basis for understanding the developments leading up to the liberation actions in May 1945.