Leokadia Justman’s Survival Story

Edition – Analysis – Public Awareness

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This interdisciplinary and international research project explores the writings of the Jewish authoress Leokadia Justman (1922–2002, married Lorraine Justman-Wisnicki), especially her autobiographical memories of her survival of the Holocaust in Poland and the regions of Seefeld, Innsbruck and Zell am See, written in 1945/46 and 1963. The project aims at a scientific online edition, the publication of a German version of Justman's memoir (Tyrolia publishers, 2025) and public awareness programs via media and in schools.

Book announcement: Leokadia Justman, Brechen wir aus! Als polnische Jüdin auf der Flucht in Tirol. Translated by Birgit Salzmann and Susanne Costa. Edited by Niko Hofinger and Dominik Markl. Innsbruck, to be published in mid-January 2025 by Tyrolia Verlag, Veröffentlichungen des Innsbrucker Stadtarchivs, Neue Folge 81.