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 …
Today, 8 November 2021, the newly-restored Jewish cemetery in Klosterneuburg was handed back to the local authority, which has committed to maintain the cemetery for the next 20 years.
The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism has published a “Visitors’ guide to the Jewish cemeteries in Austria”. The publication, which is available in German and English, was produced jointly with the Jewish religious communities and grassroots initiatives and …
On 29 June 2021, the Main Committee of the National Council unanimously acknowledged the Final Report of the Arbitration Panel for In Rem Restitution, whereby the Arbitration Panel, which was established in 2001 at the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism, was dissolved. In the …
The 8 April is International Roma Day, a significant day when it comes to raising awareness about the perceptions of people for whom the – often negatively connoted – term “gypsy” is still all too common in everyday language. Fifty years ago, on 8 April 1971, the first World Roma Congress was held …
The preparations for the new Austrian exhibition at the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau are progressing well despite the difficult circumstances caused by Covid-19.