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As a reminder and in memory: Aspang train station & Herminengasse

2. December 2017

Aspang train station memorial

Two sites commemorating the Jews from Vienna who were murdered by the Nazis were opened in Vienna this fall: the Aspang train station memorial and the Herminengasse memorial.

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Hot off the press: the new issue of “Das Jüdische Echo” (“The Jewish Response”)

1. December 2017

Das Jüdische Echo, Vol. 66, Cover by Cristóbal Schmal, 2017

Where our world is going – the focus of the current issue of “Das Jüdische Echo” (Vol. 66/2017). The magazine traces ideals for living together in society, religion and culture, in another area of tension between horror scenarios and great dreams.

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Leon Zelman Prize goes to Shalom Alaikum – Jewish Aid for Refugees

21. June 2017

Susanne Trauneck, Jewish Welcome Service

On June 21 at Vienna City Hall, Municipal Councilor Marcus Schober presented this year’s Leon Zelman Prize for Dialogue and Understanding to the Viennese initiative Shalom Alaikum, which helps refugees, on behalf of City Councilor for Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny. The first prize is endowed with 5,000 euros and donated by the City of Vienna.

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Study group from the Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto visits Vienna

22. May 2017

Group at the Wien Museum

From May 16 to 22, at the invitation of the Jewish Welcome Service in cooperation with the foreign service, a group from the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre in Toronto visited Vienna to learn about the debate over the Holocaust and about modern Jewish life in the city.

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Through Vienna with “Freud’s Butcher”

30. April 2017

City Councilor Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Susanne Trauneck and a visitor during the reception at City Hall

Expelled Jewish citizens and their families visited Vienna from April 23 to 30. The group was invited and looked after by the Jewish Welcome Service Vienna. Also among the invitees was the blogger “Freud’s Butcher”, who commented on her impressions of Vienna, sometimes with humor.

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Emotive presentation of the film documentary “My Knees Were Jumping” in Vienna

28. March 2017

People at farewell

At the end of March, the filmmaker Melissa Hacker presented the 76 minute-long documentary film “My Knees Were Jumping. Remembering The Kindertransports” in Vienna for the very first time. The author Doron Rabinovici spoke with the director in the Votivkino movie theater.

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