Józef Wiśnicki from Częstochowa jumped from the train to Treblinka, thus escaping certain death. With forged papers, he came to the German Reich as a Polish worker – to Bludenz. From April 1943, he worked in the Schaub nursery. He survived the final months of the war in the Bregenz police prison and in the Innsbruck Reichenau concentration camp. In 1946, he married Leokadia Justman in Innsbruck. His memoirs, written in New York in 1997, are now appearing in German translation for the first time, with historical annotations. This evening provides insight into the historical investigation.

The editors
Niko Hofinger, born in Innsbruck in 1969. Studied Political Science and History (not completed). Self-employed as a programmer and exhibition curator from 1999, and has also worked part-time at the Innsbruck City Archive since 2019. Academic publications on post-war Tyrolean politics and regional Jewish history, one novel.

Dominik Markl, born in Innsbruck in 1979, is a Jesuit and Professor of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at the University of Innsbruck. Previously, he taught in Rome, Washington DC, Berkeley, and Nairobi. His research focuses on the religious history of monotheism, the history of political thought, trauma theory, discourses of mass violence, and the Holocaust.

The author
Joseph Wisnicki (1916–2016), a Jewish soldier in the Polish army, survived the Holocaust and the war through daring escapes in Poland and Vorarlberg. In 1997, he wrote his memoirs, *My Fight for Survival*, which are now appearing in their first literary translation.