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Aspangbahnhof 1941.

A Story of a Female Friendship

[Aspangbahnhof 1941. Geschichte einer Frauenfreundschaft]

DIRECTED By:
Angelika Brechelmacher
SCREENPLAy: Martina Aichhorn,
Angelika Brechelmacher
CINEMATOGRAPHy: Martina Aichhorn
EDITING: Martina Aichhorn, Angelika
Brechelmacher
CONSULTATION: Maria Goldstein
PRODUCTION: Verlag grenzen
erzaehlen, Vienna 2014
CO-FINANCING: ARGE grenzen
erzählen, Zukunftsfonds der Republik
Österreich, Magistratsabteilung 57
der Stadt Wien, Magistratsabteilung 7
der Stadt Wien, Kärnter Sparkasse
Forschungsrat der Universität,
Klagenfurt
LENGTH: 69 min
LANGUAGE: German
with Polish and English subtitles
PRODUCTION DATE: 2014
FEATURING: Hella Fixel, Grete Stern A story of two ninety year old women, who were deported from
Vienna to the Łódź ghetto in 1941, and after its liquidation to
née Feldsberg
IN COLLABORATION WITH: Institut Auschwitz-Birkenau. They met each other on the train to an
für Wissenschaftskommunikation und extermination camp and became friends for life. Their ac-
Hochschulforschung, iff, Universität counts were recorded in 2009 and 2013, when Hella Fixel was
Klagenfurt, Instytut Tolerancji Łódź, still living in Vienna, and Grete Stern in Israel, near Tel-Aviv.
the State Archive of Łódź.
Both women feel that they are the only ones who can under-
ARCHIVAL MATERIALS USED:
collections of the State Archive stand each other's wartime experiences and maintain their
close relationship through frequent telephone calls.
in Łódź, Bundesarchiv-Bildarchiv;
The Central Database of Shoah T.M.
Victims' Names yad Vashem,
Dokumentationsarchiv des
Österreichischen Widerstands
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek;
Österreichisches Staatsarchiv;
Stadtgemeinde Gmünd;
Wien Museum; private collections
of Hella Fixel and Grete Stern

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