Professor Dr. Gertrude Schneider passed away on 7 September 2020. “With the passing of Gertrude Schneider we have lost a wonderful woman, journalist and historian, survivor of the Riga ghetto and several concentration camps. Baruch Dayan haemet. Our thoughts are with her family”, says Hannah …
The National Fund of the Republic of Austria is issuing an invitation to tender for the development and implementation of media technology (provision of hardware and software) for the new Austrian exhibition, which will be displayed in Block 17 on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial. …
At the end of July, in the absence of suitable offers the National Fund of the Republic of Austria revoked its invitation to tender issued in April for general contractor services for the interior design of the new Austrian exhibition in Block 17 on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial.
Dr. Kurt Hofmann, retired Vice-President of the Supreme Court and long-standing member of the Claims Committee of the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism, passed away on Saturday, 4 July 2020, at the age of 88.
The Shoah Wall of Names Memorial is currently under construction at Ostarrichi Park in the 9th District of Vienna. The names of the Jewish children, women and men from Austria who were murdered in the Shoah will be engraved on large stone tablets in memory of the over 64,000 who were robbed of their …
Gideon Eckhaus, founder and long-standing chairman of the Central Committee of Jews from Austria in Israel and of the Association of Pensioners from Austria in Israel, has passed away.
Representatives of federal and provincial politics as well as of the National Fund and the Jewish Community of Vienna met today, Monday, on the grounds of Vienna's Ostarrichi Park in front of the Austrian National Bank to mark the start of construction of the Shoah Memorial Wall. Among them were …
On 14 June 1940, the first transport carrying Polish prisoners reached Auschwitz concentration camp, which was under construction at that time. The International Auschwitz Committee (IAK), an association of Auschwitz survivors, extended an invitation to a memorial service in Berlin on the 80th …
On 21 April 2020, numerous objects dating back to the time of the camp were found in Block 17 of the former Main Camp at Auschwitz, where the new Austrian exhibition will be displayed.