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The VWI Visuals take place intermittently, presenting little known, forgotten, or controversial visual appraisals, commentaries, and documentations of the topic of the Holocaust. The films are first presented by experts and are later discussed by the guests and the public in order to place them into context. With its specific ambience and its cinematic patina, the Admiralkino in Vienna has to date provided the ideal location for this event format. With the new institute building, there is now the possibility of hosting these events in the Research Lounge of the institute.

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VWI Visual
"Grandma’s Tattoos", Director: Suzanne Khardalian, Sweden, 2011, 58 minutes, OV with English subtitles
   

Friday, 9. December 2022, 18:00 - 20:00

Metro Kinokulturhaus, Johannesgasse 4, 1010 Vienna

 

Grandma's Tattoos is a powerful documentary that reveals the fate of thousands of forgotten women, mostly teenagers and young girls, who survived the 1915 Armenian Genocide but were forced into prostitution by their captors. Many of these women were tattooed as a permanent mark of their status. Filmmaker Suzanne Khardalian begins the film by remembering her grandmother: »Grandma Khanoum was not like everyone else. She had blue tattoos on her face and hands. Strange marks that frightened us children... She despised physical contact. She never hugged anyone, never gave kisses. And she always wore gloves, which hid her hands and her tattoos, and her secret.«
An important documentary work that breaks through decades of silence, Grandma›s Tattoos tells a personal story that is indeed universal – the fate of women in conflicts and wars.

Welcome
Jochen Böhler, Director of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)
H.E. Mr. Armen Papikyan, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Armenia to Austria

Discussion
After the screening there will be a discussion with Suzanne Khardalian, film director, and Zuzanna Dziuban, Austrian Academy of Sciences, moderated by Éva Kovács (VWI).

Free admission
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