Vienna - On 13 March, the Simon Wiesenthal Prize for civic engagement to combat antisemitism and to educate people about the Holocaust will be awarded for the second time at an event held at the Austrian Parliament.
To mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January – the day Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated 78 years ago – the National Fund of the Republic of Austria is taking part in the #WeRemember campaign.
Holocaust survivor Karl Pfeifer passed away in Vienna on 6 January 2023. A journalist and surviving eyewitness, he was a tireless crusader in the fight against antisemitism for many decades.
“Exile in New Zealand”, the latest addition to the National Fund’s bilingual book series, Erinnerungen / Lives Remembered, will be presented to the public for the first time at the 2022 edition of Vienna’s annual book fair, “Buch Wien”.
2021 marked the 20th anniversary of both the Washington Agreement – concluded between the Austrian Federal Government and the Government of the United States of America to settle questions of compensation and restitution for victims of National Socialism – and the establishment of the General …
This year, the Austrian national holiday on 26th October will provide a renewed opportunity to visit the Parliament in the Hofburg before it reopens the doors to its location on the Ring in January 2023, following years of extensive renovations. After a two-year break due to the pandemic, the …
On 12 July 2022, following the completion of seven years of renovation work, the Jewish cemetery in Graz was handed over to the local authority for continued upkeep. Between 2014 and 2022 the cemetery was comprehensively renovated with funds from the Fund for the Restitution of the Jewish Cemeteries …