In March, a group of 30 Jews – mostly members of the “Second Generation” – visited Vienna at the invitation of the Jewish Welcome Service. Among the visitors was Carlos Burger, who authored a book on the history of the expulsion of his Jewish family from Vienna. Burger presented his book to Federal President Van der Bellen and Barbara Staudinger of the Jewish Museum.
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At the end of March, Vienna’s Metro Kinokulturhaus was home to the Austrian premiere of “One Life” as part of the Jewish Film Festival – a movie about Nicholas Winton (played by Anthony Hopkins), who saved 669 children from the Nazis with the Kindertransport.
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At Vienna’s District Museum Josefstadt, an exhibition on author and translator Lore Segal is currently on display. Segal managed to flee from the Nazis in Vienna on the first Kindertransport in 1938. The Jewish Welcome Service invited Segal’s daughter and granddaughter from New York to Vienna to attend the opening of the exhibition.
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This year’s Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding is awarded to the right-wing extremism expert Andreas Peham. With this distinction, the jury honors his “extensive activity from research to education to mediation work,” which Peham has been conducting for almost three decades at the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW). The award will be presented in the fall at Vienna City Hall.
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The latest edition of the “Jewish Echo” is dominated by the Hamas attack on Israel and its societal and political consequences. With the topic “Solidarity and its Limits”, intensive efforts were made to capture the complexity of the issue as a means to offering a balanced perspective.
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