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Leon Zelman Prize 2018 awarded to journalist Uli Jürgens

3. July 2018

Awarding of the Leon Zelman Prize to Uli Jürgens

The Leon Zelman Prize for Dialog and Understanding was awarded for the sixth time this year. In mid-June, publicist Uli Jürgens accepted the award from Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Vice President of the Jewish Welcome Service, at Vienna City Hall.

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Young professionals from the Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto visit Vienna

3. July 2018

IKG Street Festival at Judenplatz: HBP Van der Bellen with participants of the Vienna Study Trip

A group of young professionals from the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto visited Vienna from June 4 to 11. In cooperation with the Austrian Foreign Service, the Jewish Welcome Service prepared a varied program in which visitors learned about the Holocaust and current Jewish life in the city.

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Persecuted. Engaged. Married. Sham marriages into exile

3. July 2018

Peter and Jan Bild (center) in Museum Judenplatz: with the curators Sabine Bergler, JMW and Irene Messinger, on far left Susanne Trauneck, JWS

Sham marriages as a survival strategy of Viennese Jewesses in 1938 – the Viennese exile researcher Irene Messinger dedicated herself to this topic in two ways this year: in January she co-edited the annotated memoirs of the Viennese dancer Anita Bild. And now, together with Sabine Bergler, she has curated an exhibition on this topic at Museum Judenplatz.

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Van der Bellen and Mailath-Pokorny Host Displaced Persons and Descendants

5. December 2017

The guests from the USA, Israel, Denmark and Uruguay were welcomed by Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen. © Peter Lechner / HBF

At the invitation of the Jewish Welcome Service, a group of 30 first- and second-generation Holocaust survivors visited Vienna from October 15 to October 20. The guests from the USA, Israel, Denmark and Uruguay were welcomed by Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen and City Councilman for Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny.

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High-ranking delegation of the American Jewish Committee in Vienna

4. December 2017

The American Jewish Committee delegation (AJC) as guest in Vienna with Michael Schmidt, AJC director New York (front and center), photo: Susanne Trauneck/JWS

Once again, the Jewish Welcome Service (JWS) hosted a delegation of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) from November 6 to 12. The JWS organized a varied program in cooperation with AJC NY and the Austrian Consulate General. The aim of the visit was to give an impression of present-day Austria – from politics to business and culture to modern Jewish life.

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With a sober look: Camilla Hirsch’s Diary from Theresienstadt

3. December 2017

Book presentation at the Jewish Museum Vienna – with Michael Baiculescu, Kathrin Konrad, Tami Kinberg, Susanne Trauneck, Mirjam Prager, Ruth Elkabets (from left to right). © JMW / Andreas Svirak

Ruth Elkabets and Miriam Prager from Israel visited Vienna a few years ago at the invitation of the Jewish Welcome Service. They brought the diary of her great aunt Camilla Hirsch, in which she meticulously described the everyday life and the conditions at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Thanks to the Mandelbaum publishing house, this diary has now been published and presented at the Jewish Museum Vienna in mid November.

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