Next Wednesday, 4 May 2022, the President of the National Council, Wolfgang Sobotka, invites you to the presentation of the shortlist for the Simon Wiesenthal Prize in Parliament. The prize is awarded for the first time this year in memory of the architect, publicist and writer Simon Wiesenthal and …
In its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the General Settlement Fund determined by resolution that the Fund has completely fulfilled its tasks. The Fund is thus deemed dissolved as per 26 April 2022, pursuant to the General Settlement Fund Law.
For more than 17 years, Bernhard Rothkappel worked with the National Fund as a graphic designer. On 12 April 2022 he passed away, suddenly and unexpectedly.
The exhibition “From Repression to Remembrance. 25 Years of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism” is currently on display at the Centro Sefarad Israel in Madrid.
Exactly 51 years ago, on 8 April 1971, the first World Roma Congress took place near London – a decisive step on the path to raise awareness of the special situation of Roma, their discrimination and persecution. At the same time, it was a milestone for a movement demanding Roma rights. Since 1990, …
8 March 2022 – an International Women’s Day under the shadow of war in Europe. Images of fleeing women and children should have become a thing of the past, if we had learned anything from them. This war shows us once again that the story of the Second World War and the Cold War has not been told to …
Thursday 27 January 2022 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking 77 years since the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Today, Auschwitz is not only a place where the victims are remembered but also a place of learning for subsequent generations. …
From 10–14 November 2021, the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism was an exhibitor at BUCH WIEN (“Vienna Book Fair”) for the third time, which, despite Covid 19 restrictions, still attracted more than 41,000 visitors from 32 countries.
They year 2021 is drawing to a close – the second year under the shadow of the worldwide Covid19 pandemic. For the National Fund of the Republic of Austria, established at the National Council, the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism and the Fund for the Restoration of the …
On 9 November 2021, the 83rd anniversary of that night of terror in 1938 when the November pogroms erupted, the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial will be opened in Ostarrichi Park. On the initiative of the Austrian-born Holocaust survivor Kurt Yakov Tutter and the Association for the Creation of a Shoah …
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