Silent Exhibition: Commemorating the victims of Nazi persecution in Austria by SCI Austria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc en-us 2021-01-10 15:49:40 UTC 2023-01-21 18:06:05 UTC hello@padlet.com "Waldheim Horse" sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1082816022 “Waldheim Horse” first appeared at demonstrations in 1986, during the presidential campaign of former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, after his involvement in the Wehrmacht unit that was responsible for deportation of Jews Thessaloniki to the extermination camps came to light. This caused a major political scandal and finally led to a big debate among the general public about Austria’s Nazi past and the role of Austria in war crimes.  Waldheim Horse became a symbol of protest as a reference to the statement made by Federal Chancellor Fred Sinowatz “Kurt Waldheim was never in the SA, only his horse.”[1] Protesters insisted that they do not want to be a part of National "memory lapse". Wooden horse was made by Alfred Hrdlicka and can be found today in the Museum of Vienna. This work of performance art became symbol of antiracism, confrontation with Nazi past and enlightened civil society.[2]

A Documentary by Ruth Beckermann "The Waldheims Walz"]]> 2021-01-13 13:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1082816022 Diana Budisavljević sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1083095484 Diana Budisavljević was an Austrian humanitarian who led a major relief effort in Yugoslavia during World War II. From October 1941, on her initiative and involving many co-workers, she organized and provided assistance to mostly Serbian Orthodox women and children detained in the Ustashe camps in the Independent State of Croatia, a Nazi puppet state established in occupied Yugoslavia. The operation, known as "Action Diana Budisavljević", succeeded in saving around 10,000 children. Budisavljević described the course of the Action in a diary, starting with 23 October 1941 and the final entry on 7 February 1947. The diary was released in Croatian in 2003. After her story was better publicized in 2012, she received substantial posthumous recognition.

A film by Dana Budisavljević "The Diary of Diana B."]]> 2021-01-13 14:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1083095484 Jews cleaning streets in Vienna sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086523164  
In this image, as part of a ritual of public humiliation, Jewish men and women were forced to scrub the streets to remove political slogans that were critical of Germany’s annexation of Austria, an event also known as the Anschluss. In the background, members of the German SA and SS look on, joined by an apparently enthusiastic crowd of civilian spectators. In the days and weeks following the Anschluss, there was a rapid rise in anti-Jewish violence across Austria, particularly in Vienna, where 90 percent of Austria’s Jewish population lived.

Source : United States Holocaust History Museum]]> 2021-01-14 10:17:17 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086523164 The numbers of victims of Nazi persecution in Austria sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086637229 In 2008, the following numbers were documented by Wolfgang Neugebauer:
"The number of Jewish Austrians killed ranges between 65.000 and 70.000, 62.000 of which have been specified by name within a large-scale project. 25.000 to 30.000 people were killed in euthanasia. The persecution of Austrian Roma resulted in 9.000 to 10.000 victims killed. The number of murdered resistance fighters lies between 4.000 and 5.000. The numbers for Austrian victims of persecution by the NS Regime is therefore around 103.000 in the lowest estimation, 115.000 in the highest one. The number of opponents to the regime who were convicted and imprisoned has approximately the same dimension. It is estimated around 100.000. This figure of about 210.000 must be compared to 700.000 members of the Nazi party and to 6.500.000 inhabitants of Austria in 1938."[1]


]]> 2021-01-14 10:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086637229 Righteous Among the Nations sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086656247 "And so we must know these good people who helped Jews during the Holocaust .We must learn from them, and in gratitude and hope, we must remember them."[1]
Elie Wiesel, a Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor.

In 1963, Yad Vashem,  The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, has started the Righteous Among the Nations project to pay tribute to the people who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. A person who is recognized as Righteous for having taken risks to help Jews during the Holocaust is awarded a medal in their name, a certificate of honor, and the privilege of having the name added to those on the Wall of Honor in the Garden of the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem . 109 Austrians have been Honored with this title. 
In this Silent Exhibition we are mentioning only couple of Austrians who are listed in the The Righteous Among the Nations Database.

]]> 2021-01-14 11:06:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086656247 Irene Harand sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086688702 (6 September 1900 – 3 February 1975) was an Austrian human rights activist and campaigner against antisemitism.
Harand was born a Roman Catholic in Vienna and was an early organiser of protests against Nazi Germany's persecutions of Jews. She started the Harand Movement, an organisation Weltbewegung gegen Rassenhass und Menschennot (World Movement Against Racial Hatred and Human Suffering) in 1933 and actively campaigned throughout Europe before World War II.

Source : Irene Harand, Wikipedia.
]]> 2021-01-14 11:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086688702 "Für das Kind" sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086745095 This is a sculpture by Flor Kent. 
The boy is part of a series of memorials, all called ''Für das Kind' ('For the Child' / 'Pro Dítê'). 

This boy sitting on a suitcase at the Westbahnhof in Vienna, the girl with her family at the Main Station in Prague, and both children together at Liverpool Street Station in London,  are the several sculptures part of this serie.
 In particular the statues commemorate the actions of Nicholas Winton, who came to the Czech Republic in 1938 to help organise the Kindertransport trains, as well as arranging the foster families and financial support required by the British government. In all, around 10,000 children were brought to safety in Britain

Source : https://www.holocaust.org.uk/fur-das-kind

]]> 2021-01-14 11:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086745095 Welcome! sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086746472 In this online exhibition, we remember National Socialist crimes, persecution and resistance in Austria with a special focus on non-violent forms of resistance. We encourage you to browse through the exhibition, to comment and to engage with the things that are exhibited.]]> 2021-01-14 11:41:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1086746472 Franz Jägerstätter sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1087263499 One of the most remembered resistance fighters in Austria today, Franz Jägerstätter from Sankt Radegrund (Upper Austria) refused to collaborate with the Nazis because of his Christian belief. His relatives (except for his wife) and even the Cardinal of Vienna tried to convince him otherwise. He was arrested and transferred to Berlin-Tegel prison and excuted in 1943 for "unworthy of defense" and dishonor and for "undermining military strength."]]> 2021-01-14 14:18:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1087263499 "One of the things that father wrote again and again: 'The girls should go on with their trip to America!'" https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1109849283 Hedi Pope, survivor of the November pogrom in 1938 in Vienna]]> 2021-01-21 13:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1109849283 Ruth Maier https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1109884751 On her eighteenth birthday in 1938, she was witness to the violent excesses of the Nazi mob during the November Pogrom in Vienna: Ruth Maier, who had never before had a connection to Judaism, begins consideration of her identity in her diary. Thrown out of school; evicted from her home; without a future in Austria; she finds refuge in Norway in January 1939. From Oslo, she gets deported and murdered in Auschwitz in 1942.
Ruth Maier kept a diary since 1933. In it, she described her feelings, her everyday life, documenting political events the persecution of Jews after the "Anschluss" of 1938.

Source : https://www.doew.at/]]> 2021-01-21 13:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1109884751 „It was incredibly difficult to walk hand in hand but we thought it was a stylish thing.” sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1121125483 Gábor Bán - Hungary

]]> 2021-01-25 10:01:27 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1121125483 “I was a heavily pregnant skeleton.” sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1121138387 Anna Bergman (born Kaudrová) - United Kingdom

]]> 2021-01-25 10:05:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1121138387 „My biography reflects the contradictions of the 20th century in quite a typical way.“ sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1121149107 Karl Brozik (formerly Abeles) - Germany

Source: KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen (mauthausen-memorial.org)
]]> 2021-01-25 10:08:37 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1121149107 “I want to remind one of the heaps of dead bodies. They were numerous.“ sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1121159477 Eva Lukash (born Kral) - Israel

]]> 2021-01-25 10:11:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1121159477 “Sometimes they beat you more, sometimes less. But they beat you every day.“ sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1121384338 Michael Horvath - Austria

]]> 2021-01-25 11:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1121384338 The Aspang Railway Station Memorial sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122046226 The Aspang Railway Station Memorial commemorates the Jewish Austrian men and women who were deported from Aspang Railway Station to be murdered. The station  was made the point of departure for deportation transports under the Nazi regime.
 Of 47,035 Jewish men and women deported from Aspang Railway Station, only 1,073—according to calculations by historian Jonny Moser—survived the ghettos and extermination camps. For most of the more than 66,000 Austrian victims of the Shoah, the way to extermination began from this station in central Vienna.
The Aspang Railway Station Memorial consists of two 30 meter long converging concrete rails leading into a dark and hollow concrete block, symbol of death, nothingness, and oblivion.

Source: Aspang Railway Station Memorial / Public Art Vienna (koer.or.at)]]> 2021-01-25 14:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122046226 Heinz Heger / Josef Kohout sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122181950 ”The Men with the Pink Triangle”, published in 1972,  is based on the experience of Nazi concentration camp survivor Josef Kohout from Vienna, who was imprisoned for his homosexuality. The book was the first testimony of a gay survivor of a Nazi concentration camp and has originated from 15 interviews that Heger conducted with Kohout. Because of the book, the pink triangle became a symbol for the queer rights movement worldwide.

The photo below shows a book sharing installation to commemorate the homosexual victims of National Socialism, located in the 9th Bezirk of Vienna, in Heinz-Heger-Park.]]> 2021-01-25 14:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122181950 Maier-Messner-Caldonazzi Group sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122402334 The "Maier-Messner-Caldonazzi Group" was an Austrian resistance group against National Socialism that aimed to collect and disseminate information about locations, employees and productions of Nazi arms factories to the Allies to avoid the bombing of civil areas.

Source: Maier-Messner-Caldonazzi – Wikipedia]]> 2021-01-25 15:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122402334 Anton Granig sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122486717 Dr. Anton Granig ( 1901 - 1945) was an Austrian priest and theologian and a resistance fighter against National Socialism. In 1942 he founded the resistance group "Antifascist Freedom Movement Austria" together with Karl Krumpl and Eduard Pumernig in Carinthia.

He and other members of the Group were sentenced to death and executed on April 5, 1945

Source: DÖW - Erinnern - Fotos und Dokumente - 1938 - 1945 - SCHLAGLICHTER - 15. April 1945 (doew.at)

]]> 2021-01-25 15:38:20 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122486717 »A person is first forgotten when his name is forgotten« (Talmud) sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122552716 The project  "Stumbling stones" , in german "Stolpersteine" began in 1992, when the artist Gunter Demnig first laid plaques in this format for victims of the Holocaust. He called the plaques ‘stumbling stones’ as a metaphor.  Nowadays there are over 70.000 stumbling stones all around the world. Each plaque is highly individual, featuring the person’s name, date of birth and fate. 
In Austria the first stumbling stones were posed in 1997 in the  town of St. Georgen near Salzburg.
In many countries in Central Europe, including Austria single citizens or civil society organizations are preserving this memorials with cleaning and restoring actions.]]> 2021-01-25 15:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122552716 Rosa (Hoffman) Stallbaumer sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122599349 Rosa (Hoffman) Stallbaumer (1897-1942) was a member of the Austrian Resistance during World War II. 
Her name is one of 124 names of women and men from Tyrol, Austria inscribed on the Liberation Monument at The Eduard-Wallnöfer-Platz in Innsbruck in recognition of both her involvement in resisting National Socialism and of her death at Auschwitz, following her incarceration at that Nazi concentration camp as punishment for helping Jewish targets of Nazi persecution escape to Italy.

Source: Rosa Stallbaumer - Wikipedia]]> 2021-01-25 15:57:57 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122599349 Selma Steinmetz sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122709185 Selma Steinmetz (1907 - 1979) was an Austrian educator and author who emigrated to France after the cancellation of democracy in Austria. After the German invasion in 1940, Selma Steinmetz became a resistance activist. 
At the end of 1945 she was able to return to Vienna (where she had spent her student years) and was one of the first researchers to study the histories of victims of National Socialism. After 1963 she was an important contributor to the work of the Austrian Resistance Archive ("Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes").

Source: Selma Steinmetz - Wikipedia

]]> 2021-01-25 16:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122709185 VIENNA Memento sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122743958 The Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) offers an interesting multimedia map with a lists of Nazi persecution places in Vienna
DöW - Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance (doew.at)]]> 2021-01-25 16:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122743958 Politics of Remembrance sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122786216 The project “Politics of Remembrance and the Transition of Public Spaces: A Political and Social Analysis of Vienna” (POREM) investigated the memorial landscape of Vienna dealing with political violence by the Austrofascist (1934-1938) and the National Socialist (1938-1945) regimes.

The project of University of Vienna offers an interactive map allowing the user to define temporal, spatial, social, and thematic factors for drawing specific maps of remembrance (and of forgetting too).]]> 2021-01-25 16:28:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122786216 Elisabeth Jäger sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122919855 Elisabeth Jäger (born Morawitz, 25 September 1924 – 28 June 2019) was a committed anti-fascist and a survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp born in Vienna.
Source: Elisabeth Jäger - Wikipedia]]> 2021-01-25 16:49:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1122919855 Leopoldine Kovarik sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1123026444 Leopoldine Kovarik (5 February 1919 – 2 November 1943) was a post office employee who lived and worked in a suburb in the south side of Vienna. After Austria was merged into Nazi Germany she became a resistance activist. During the Second World War she became a member of a group which used to write letters to members of the army encouraging them to desert. Aged 24, she was convicted under the usual charge of "preparing to commit high treason" ("Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat") and guillotined at Vienna's regional penitentiary, which had incorporated its own execution chamber since the aftermath of the short-lived uprising of 1934.

Source: Leopoldine Kovarik - Wikipedia

]]> 2021-01-25 17:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1123026444 "People who had been friends suddenly became enemies. Overnight." sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1126479212 Leo Luster - Austria

]]> 2021-01-26 13:07:21 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1126479212 Online collection of witness testimonies sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127148787 The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism  was established in 1995 to express Austria's special responsibility towards the victims of National Socialism. The National Fund carries out the academic research into National Socialism and the fates of its victims, provides acknowledgement, support and sponsors projects which benefit victims of National Socialism.
The National Found works on preservation of the memory of the victims and gathers data of people who fell victim to the Nazi regime for many different reasons. It displays the life stories of the victims of National Socialism. You can find the Online collection of eyewitness Testimonies here.

]]> 2021-01-26 15:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127148787 The "kneeling Jew" sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127371083 The memorial against war and fascism is a work by the Austrian sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka. It stays  as walk-in monument,  and it is intended to serve as a reminder of the darkest epoch in Austrian history. It is dedicated to all victims of war and fascism.  It represents the "Gate of Violence" with the bronze sculpture of the "kneeling Jew" brushing the street which . The memorial was commissioned by the city of Vienna and was installed on Albertinaplatz in Vienna's city centre on November 1988.

Source: Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance (memorialmuseums.org)]]> 2021-01-26 15:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127371083 This page is part of a bigger project sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127799939 SCI Austria’s silent exhibition is organised as a follow-up activity of the online laboratory "Smash Nazism" which was part of the transnational project "Nonviolent European Resistance Project". This project reflects on Nonviolent Resistance to Nazi-Fascism in Europe and is focused on stimulating people to actively engage in taking action against right-wing extremism and related forms of violence we are witnessing today. ]]> 2021-01-26 17:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127799939 Today is January 27. sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127803840 76 years ago, the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by Soviet troops. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is held every year to commemorate this event.]]> 2021-01-26 17:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127803840 Testimonies about Nazi persecution sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127828408 2021-01-26 17:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127828408 „Finally, we helped each other..., a group to exchange good news, to comfort...“ sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127921724 Paul Brusson - Belgium

]]> 2021-01-26 17:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127921724 Jägerstätter after his death sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127926337 In Austria, Franz Jägerstätter was not recognized as a victim of political resistance because refusing to serve in the military is a criminal offense in all armies in the world.

The Catholic Church, despite turning away from him during his lifetime and collaborating with the Nazi regime, later declared him a martyr and beatified him. Like in other times during history, the Church stood on the side of the powerful and dictators, but later remembers more the resistance fighters rather than its own doings.

The life of Franz Jägerstätter was made into a film by American director Terrence Malick. "A Hidden Life" was released in 2020.
]]> 2021-01-26 17:22:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1127926337 "I didn’t even know what politics meant.“ sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1128034842 Nikola Jovanović - Serbia



]]> 2021-01-26 17:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1128034842 “The camp is a parody of our modern society, monstrous and pushed to the limit.“ sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1128109192 Jean Laurent Grey - France

]]> 2021-01-26 17:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1128109192 Elfriede Hartmann sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1128143380 Elfriede Hartmann (21 May 1921 - 2 November 1943) was a Viennese engaged in anti-war resistance. She was executed by guillotine at the Vienna district court complex.

Source: Elfriede Hartmann - Wikipedia

]]> 2021-01-26 17:59:36 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1128143380 “When you arrive in camp with an idea for which you have fought earlier on and you see that this had made sense, you get some kind of moral support.” sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1128486939 Boltežar (Cvetko) Kobal - Slovenia

]]> 2021-01-26 18:59:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1128486939 Ruth Klüger sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1128548291
Ruth Klüger was a Holocaust survivor and author from Vienna. In 1942, at the age of eleven, Klüger was deported to the concentration camp Theresienstadt together with her mother. They were later deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and eventually to Christianstadt, a satellite camp of Groß-Rosen in Silesia. After escaping the death march in February 1945, Ruth Klüger and her mother settled in Straubing (Bavaria) until their emigration to the United States in October 1947. She describes her childhood in the concentration camp in her memoir “Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered”. Klüger died last October at the age of 88.

]]> 2021-01-26 19:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1128548291 IRemember Wall sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1130221144 2021-01-27 07:19:28 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1130221144 Shoah Memorial on Judenplatz sciaustria https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1130244623 Shoah Memorial also known as the Nameless Library stands in Judenplatz in the first district of Vienna. It is the central memorial for the Austrian victims of the Holocaust and was designed by the British artist Rachel Whiteread. The tiles set into the ground around the memorial bear the names of the places where Austrian Jews lost their lives during the Nazi period.]]> 2021-01-27 07:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sciaustria/ckzpdr5gwya5h0gc/wish/1130244623