A total of 30 people from the USA, Canada, England, Israel, Argentina and Norway visited Vienna from November 6 to13 at the invitation of the Jewish Welcome Service. For the first time, the visitors were exclusively relatives of the second generation of Holocaust survivors.
The Jewish Echo 2016 – Threats, enemy stereotypes, scapegoats
As Elias Canetti once said, many people experience fear when faced with the strange and unfamiliar.
Exhibition: Last places before deportation
Kleine Sperlgasse, Castellezgasse, Malzgasse
Sixty-six thousand Jews in Austria were murdered by the National Socialists. For most of these people, the journey to extermination began in the heart of Vienna, in the collection centers on Kleine Sperlgasse, Castellezgasse and Malzgasse. An exhibition organized by the Austrian Academy of Sciences in the crypt of the Holocaust Memorial casts light on these forgotten places of the Holocaust and the fates of the victims of the deportations.
