To mark the opening of the special exhibition “Documents of Injustice. The Case of Freud” at the Sigmund Freud Museum, around 20 descendants of the family traveled to Vienna from the United States, Israel, and Denmark at the end of October. The costs of travel and accommodation for the family members were supported by the Jewish Welcome Service.
Descendants of the Freud family came to Vienna at the end of October to attend the opening of the special exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum. The exhibition deals with the murder of four of Sigmund Freud’s sisters by the Nazis and the family’s systematic dispossession. The visit brought relatives together, some of whom had never met before.
The exhibition sheds light on the last months of the Freud family in Nazi Vienna and recounts the events of the following years. The focus is on previously unknown documents from the estate of the Nazi-appointed “provisional administrator” of the International Psychoanalytical Publishing House.
The show traces the systematic dispossession of Sigmund Freud and his brother Alexander in detail and tells of the fate of four of Freud’s five sisters: Rosa, Maria, Adolfine, and Pauline, who were evicted from their apartments, moved into a “collective apartment,” robbed, deported, and murdered in 1942. The exhibition documents the fates of victims and stories of perpetrators and also sheds light on how Nazi crimes were dealt with in post-war Austria – right up to the founding history of the Sigmund Freud Museum.
Documents of Injustice. The Case of Freud.
Special exhibition at the Sigmund Freud Museum
Vienna 9, Berggasse 19
until November 9, 2026
