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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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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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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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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The author Lore Segal visited Austria at the end of September. The occasion was the opening of the exhibition “Kitchen of Memory” at the Literaturhaus Wien and the awarding of the author with the Theodor Kramer Prize “For Writing in Resistance and Exile”. The Jewish Welcome Service supported the trip of Lore Segal and her daughter Beatrice.
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In the week from October 7 to 14, a group of 40 people visited Vienna at the invitation of the Jewish Welcome Service. The majority of guests from five nations are descendants, members of the second generation, who went in search of family traces.
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