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Commemorative trip in remembrance of the “Kindertransports” in 1938/39

5. July 2019

Gedenkreise zur Erinnerung an die "Kindertransporte" 1938/39, Besucher, Hauptbahnhof

In remembrance of the “Kindertransports” that took place to save Jewish children 80 years ago, the Jewish Welcome Service, together with the Kindertransport Association New York and other organizations, arranged a commemorative trip from Vienna to London at the start of July. Taking part in the trip were four of the “children” from 1938/39 as well as 13 descendants of refugees.
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Extensive visitor program for young professionals from Toronto

25. June 2019

A group of young professionals from the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre Toronto visited Vienna once again this year from June 17 to 24 at the invitation of the Jewish Welcome Service. In cooperation with the Austrian Service Abroad, the JWS prepared a varied program in which visitors learned about the Holocaust and current Jewish life in the city.
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Leon Zelman Prize 2019 awarded to Shoshana Duizend-Jensen

13. June 2019

Leon Zelman Preis 2019 an Shoshana Duizend-Jensen

This year’s Leon Zelman Prize for Dialog and Understanding went to Shoshana Duizend-Jensen, who works as a historian at the Municipal and Provincial Archives of Vienna. City councilwoman Veronica Kaup-Hasler handed over the award to the scientist on June 12 at Vienna City Hall.
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Visiting group joins in celebrations for Festival of Joy

13. May 2019

Besuchsgruppe Rathaus, Mai 2019

From May 5 to 12, the Jewish Welcome Service Vienna hosted a group of second generation Jews from Vienna. Among other activities, the group of 35 people also took part in the celebrations for the “Fest der Freude” (Festival of Joy) at Heldenplatz.
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Jakov-Lind-Strasse receives its name: commemorating a great artist

10. April 2019

Jakov-Lind-Straße benannt

On April 9, district representative Ursula Lichtenegger officially named Jakov-Lind-Strasse in Vienna’s 2nd district. It commemorates author, painter and filmmaker Jakov Lind (1927-2007), who was able to flee from the Nazis to the Netherlands in a Kindertransport (children’s transport). The Jewish Welcome Service invited Lind’s daughter Oona Napier Lind and grandson Orlando Lind to Vienna for the street-naming ceremony.
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Alles tanzt – exhibition at Vienna’s Theatermuseum

31. March 2019

Alles tanzt – Ausstellung im Wiener Theatermuseum, Plakat

Since the end of March, the exhibition “Alles tanzt. Kosmos Wiener Tanzmoderne” [Everything is dancing. Cosmos of modern Viennese dance] at Vienna’s Theatermuseum has been paying homage to a series of outstanding dancers who blazed a trail for European Modernism. Among them Hilde Holger, whose daughter Primavera Boman-Behram traveled from London to attend the opening of the exhibition with the support of the Jewish Welcome Service.
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