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As a reminder and in memory: Aspang train station & Herminengasse

2. December 2017

Two sites commemorating the Jews from Vienna who were murdered by the Nazis were opened in Vienna this fall: the Aspang train station memorial and the Herminengasse memorial.

Aspang train station memorial
Herbert Schrott, Holocaust survivor and witness in a media interview in front of the Aspang train station memorial, all photos on this page: Susanne Trauneck/JWS

In the words of Herbert Schrott, the Aspang train station memorial at Leon-Zelman-Park in Vienna “should remind us of a time without mercy.” Schrott is a contemporary witness and one of a total 47,035 Austrian Jews who were deported to the Nazi concentration camps from Aspang train station. 1,073 of them survived. Holocaust survivor Leo Luster (see placard) requested this memorial on the occasion of a commemoration ceremony in November 1998 organized by the Jewish Welcome Service under the direction of Leon Zelman (see placard). It took nearly 20 years to implement the project.

Aspang train station memorial, Speech from City Councilman Mailath-Pokorny
Speech from City Councilman Mailath-Pokorny
Aspang train station memorial, Israeli Ambassador Talya Lador Fresher
Israeli Ambassador Talya Lador Fresher
Aspang train station memorial, IKG President Oscar Deutsch
IKG President Oscar Deutsch
Aspang train station Memorial
Aspang train station Memorial

Individual fates in lines

The Herminengasse memorial at the Schottenring subway station’s northern exit was designed by artist and musician Michaela Melián . It commemorates the 1,322 Jews who lived in Herminengasse from 1938 to 1945 or were quartered there before thy were ultimately deported by the Nazis. Melián traces individual fates in lines using murals by drawing lines from the residential houses in Herminengasse to the concentration camps.

The publication about the Herminengasse memorial “HERMINENGASSE. Die jüdische Bevölkerung (The Jewish Population) 1938 – 1945” by Tina Walzer (Ger./Engl.) is available for free at all ticket and information booths on the Vienna lines.

Memorial at the Herminengasse subway station by Michaela Melián
Memorial at the Herminengasse subway station by Michaela Melián
Publication “Herminengasse. Die jüdische Bevölkerung (The Jewish Population), 1938 – 1945” by Tina Walzer
Publication “Herminengasse. Die jüdische Bevölkerung (The Jewish Population), 1938 – 1945” by Tina Walzer
Memorial at the Herminengasse subway station by Michaela Melián
Memorial at the Herminengasse subway station by Michaela Melián

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