At the end of June, at the initiative of the Jewish Welcome Service, historians Gabriele Anderl and Evelyn Adunka led a “city walk to places of Jewish life in Vienna” through the districts of Ottakring and Hernals.Read more

In mid-June, a group of over 30 Jews – mostly members of the “Second Generation” – were welcomed in Vienna at the invitation of the Jewish Welcome Service. The visitor program involving generally comprehensive family research also included a reception by City Councilor for Culture Veronica Kaup-Hasler at Vienna City Hall.Read more

As ever, there is still huge interest in the Vienna Trips, on which the Jewish Welcome Service has regularly invited young descendants of Shoah survivors since summer 2021. At the moment, however, demand is so great that registration is not currently possible. The offer is supported by the Vienna Tourist Board.Read more

This year’s edition of the magazine “The Jewish Echo” (vol. 71) was published at the end of March. Over 130 pages, the new editor-in-chief Christian Schüller presents a range of perspectives on the topic of flight and expulsion in collaboration with 16 authors.Read more

This year, the Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding has been awarded to cultural mediator Hannah Landsmann. Landsmann, “through her many years of extensive mediation work, makes a significant contribution to raising public awareness when it comes to Jewish culture,” so goes the jury’s assessment.Read more

In November, Maria Gabrielsen was in Vienna at the invitation of the ESRA Psychosocial Health Center and Jewish Welcome Service to talk about her life at the Jewish Museum. Gabrielsen is one of the “Schwarz children” who were denounced by their mother and deported by the Nazis to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. She and her six siblings survived the Holocaust. She wrote about her experiences in the book “Angezeigt von Mama – Die Geschichte einer Denunziation” (Metropol Verlag).Read more