In this film project, based on an idea by the Austrian Academy of Sciences President Anton Zeilinger, sixteen scientists who were persecuted by the National Socialists and expelled from Austria have their say. Among them are the literary scholar Ruth Klüger, the chemist Martin Karplus, the physicist Walter Kohn and the neuroscientist Eric Kandel. All of them had a sustainable impact on their research fields; several of them received the Nobel Prize. In this film project, based on an idea by the Austrian Academy of Sciences President Anton Zeilinger, sixteen scientists who were persecuted by the National Socialists and expelled from Austria have their say.

Frederick Baker, the British-Austrian filmmaker and scholar, created and directed the documentary. He conducted the interviews in 2015/16 together with the historians Johannes Feichtinger and Heidemarie Uhl, who were responsible for the scholarly project management.

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Source: Jewish Museum Vienna