Exhibition in the crypt of the Austrian Heroes' Memorial in the Outer Burgtor of the Vienna Hofburg on Heldenplatz from 18 September 2025 to 15 October 2026.

Free admission during the crypt's opening hours (Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.)*.

Exhibition opening on 17 September 2025, 6 p.m. – Suse Lichtenberger, Anna Kramer and Claudia Kottal read from their play ‘Ich bin Ruth’ (I am Ruth) – register here.

Ruth Maier was born in Vienna in 1920 and experienced the so-called Anschluss of Austria to the German Reich as a teenager. As a Jew, she was no longer allowed to attend public school and fled to Norway in 1939, where she met the poet and her future partner Gunvor Hofmo in 1940. But in 1942, Ruth Maier's life ended at the age of only 22 when she was deported from Oslo and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

The exhibition is being held in cooperation with the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW).

Book individual guided tours for groups of 5 or more people through the Austrian Heroes' Memorial in the Outer Burgtor of the Vienna Hofburg Outer Burgtor and the exhibition:
kulturvermittlung@hgm.at or +43 664 8876 3811.

 *Please note the following closing days: 24 December, 25 December, 31 December, 1 January 2026.

© HBF/ Daniel Trippolt