The Track

From a network of death towards a network of remembering

The dominant feature in the room is the installation "The Track" (design Büro Müller-Rieger). Light tracks imbedded in many thousand small cards bearing the names of murdered people end at the gatehouse of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In a unique co-operation, the first of its kind, this modern installation of a track will form a link to the memorial sites of Auschwitz, Bełżec, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sobibór and Chełmno in Poland. Large monitors will show direct images from cameras installed in these places which can be controlled from the exhibition in Nuremberg. As well as informing visitors about the contemporary sights and everyday life at these former places of terror, which until today have remained far beyond our field of view, they dramatically shrink the distance to the camps, exploited by the National Socialist to veil the murders.