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In accordance with the latest amendment to the National Fund Law, from 2024 onwards the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism will hold an annual conference.
The first conference of the National Fund will took a look back at the past and forward to the future, uniting them under one mantle. It offered a comprehensive review of the work to come to terms with the Nazi era in Austria and shined a light on its achievements and the projects that have been implemented. This paved the way for a discussion on what form remembrance in Austria should take moving forward and which areas need to be addressed to continue to live up to the responsibility towards the victims of National Socialism and their descendants in the future.
Remembrance and Responsibility: The Future of Remembrance and the Work to Come to Terms with the Nazi Era in Austria.
Outlook for the Year of Remembrance 2025: Eighty Years Since the End of the Second World War and the Founding of the Second Republic.
Programme:
Opening words
Wolfgang Sobotka
President of the National Council
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism and the Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria
Introduction
Hannah Lessing
Managing Director of the National Fund
Keynote speeches
Katja Sturm-Schnabl
Philologist, Honorary Senator of the University of Vienna and contemporary eyewitness
Brigitte Bailer
Historian, University of Vienna
Member of the Committee of the National Fund
Elke Rajal
Political scientist, University of Passau
Coordinator of the Research Network 31 on Racism and Antisemitism in the European Sociological Association
Conversation with memorial service members
Moritz Gemel
Memorial Service 2023/24 at the Holocaust and Genocide Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
Philipp Auberger
Memorial Service 2023/24 at the Azrieli Foundation, Toronto, Canada
Tabea Chaharlangi
Memorial Service 2023/24 at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel and at the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
Panel discussion
Oskar Deutsch
President of the Jewish Community Vienna
Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Fund
Barbara Glück
Director of the Mauthausen Memorial
Member of the Board of Trustees of the National Fund
Susanne Janistyn-Novák
Parliamentary Vice-Director
Member of the Committee of the National Fund
Andreas Kranebitter
Managing Scientific Director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance
Moritz Wein
Deputy Head of Department, Holocaust Education/Remembrance Policy, Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
Moderated by Hannah Lessing, Managing Director of the National Fund
Moderation
Judith Pfeffer
Managing Director of the National Fund
