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A tour to places of Jewish life

10. December 2024

JWS-Stadtspaziergang-Margareten, 2024, Café Rüdigerhof

In October, the walking “Tour to places of Jewish life in Margareten”, which was first carried out in 2020, was resumed. Historian and Zelman award winner Gabriele Anderl led participants through Vienna’s 5th district on the trail of (vanished) Jewish life.
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“For the Child” – upcoming exhibition venues

9. December 2024

Ausstellung "Für das Kind". Habseligkeiten von Pauline Worner

The traveling exhibition ”For the Child” was put together in 2014 by Rosie Potter and Patricia Ayre and commemorates the children and adolescents who escaped the murderous machinery of the Nazis with the so-called “Kindertransport” (Refugee Children’s Movement). Until mid-2025, the exhibition will be displayed at new locations in Vienna.
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The Viennese who never lived in Vienna

13. June 2024

Besuch Gruppe 2024, Alexander Van der Bellen, Carlos Burger

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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“One Life” movie premiere – a rarely seen perspective of the Kindertransport

13. June 2024

Filmpremiere "One Life" 2024, Metro Kino Wien

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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Other People’s Houses – exhibition on Lore Segal in Vienna

13. June 2024

Portraitfotos von Lore Segal

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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Leon Zelman Prize 2024: Award to right-wing extremism expert Andreas Peham

13. June 2024

Andreas Peham, Portraitfoto

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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