Magdeburg (dpa/sa) - A traveling exhibition is dedicated to the four previously little-known siblings of the murdered communist leader Rosa Luxemburg, which is visiting Magdeburg. After the opening of "In Rosa's Schatten" on Tuesday in the city library, the show, which was conceived in cooperation with the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt, is to be shown until March 31st. It is about Luxemburg's close relationship with her older brothers Mikołaj, Maxymilian and Józef, as well as with her sister Anna.
According to a statement from the city library, the Warsaw office of the Luxembourg Foundation tells the story of the Luxemburg Jewish family, who came from Poland, with contemporary documents, photographs, quotations and illustrated exhibition boards. Above all, letters that have been preserved would describe and reflect the special relationship between all of them, it said. The presentation is based on research by Luxembourg biographer Holger Politt and Polish journalist Krzysztof Pilawski.
The starting and ending point of the exhibition is the former Polish provincial capital of Zamość on the border with Ukraine. Rozalia Luxenburg was born here on March 5, 1871, later she changed her name. With Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919) she led the Spartacus League. The two heads of the revolutionary movement were kidnapped in 1919, interrogated and then shot.
