Öffentliche Führung: 1933-1945HGB. Eine Ausstellung des HGB-Archivs

In the organizer's words:

Public guided tour with Julia Blume, Head of the HGB Archive

The exhibition "1933-1945HGB" attempts to provide an insight into the history of the HGB Leipzig (then the Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Trade) during the National Socialist era.

Research into the history of the HGB has been met with incomplete records. An archive of the university was not kept continuously. Especially in times of political upheaval, documents were arbitrarily and deliberately destroyed and carelessly handled. The documents from the period between 1933 and 1945 are particularly fragmentary, so numerous secondary sources must be used to reconstruct the events. Research in the archives and library of the HGB, the state archives in Leipzig and Dresden, the digital holdings of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York and a review of current thematic literature form the basis for the material in the exhibition. Excerpts and reproductions from documents, archive holdings and journals will provide an insight into this chapter of the institution's history in chronological order.

The exhibition is open until June 26: Wed. + Thurs. 13:30-17:30, Fri. 14:30-18:30