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Portraits of Survivors on View at Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp Memorial

FLOSSENBUERG.- An elderly man wearing a lightly-colored windbreaker, his eyes are closed, he seems rather introverted. Another man is looking the beholder right in the face with an impish wink in his eyes. A lady with curly white hair is looking past the beholder’s shoulder into the distance. She is wearing an elegant dark green jacket. Just like a nice grandmother expecting her family for a visit. Three people with different character traits and biographies. They have only one thing in common: they were imprisoned in the Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp and they survived its terrors. These pictures and further portraits of former prisoners are on display in the new temporary exhibition “In uns der Ort”, which opens on July 15 on the premises of the Flossenbuerg Concentration Camp Memorial. This is the first such temporary exhibition initiated by the memorial’s staff. For this purpose, the