On November 21, 2022, Barbara Glück, the Director of the Mauthausen Memorial in Austria, traveled to Washington, DC to sign a cooperation agreement with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) on digitalization. Zachary Levine, the Director of Archival and Curatorial Affairs at the USHMM signed for the USHMM side at a ceremony at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. The Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues at the U.S. Department of State, Ellen Germain, was also present at the ceremony.

The two museums have a long-standing history of cooperation, having worked together since 2003 to preserve original documents in the Mauthausen archive with microfilm. Since that time, the Mauthausen Memorial’s collection has increased by hundreds of thousands of pages of documents. The cooperation agreement signed on November 21 launches a large-scale joint digitalization project of many of these previously unpreserved written records.

Glück and Levine shake hands © USHMM / Joel Mason-Gaines (photo 1); Ellen Germain speaks © USHMM / Joel Mason-Gaines (photo 2); Germain, Levine, Glück and Salzmann pose for a picture © ÖB Washington / Julia Strohdorfer (photo 3); © ÖB Washington / Julia Strohdorfer (photo 4)