Vienna Austria Opens First Public Memorial Listing Holocaust Victims' Names #announcements #austria-czech #holocaust #names
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Andreas Schwab
Here are all the names on the monument:
http://viennaheritagetours.com/blog2.html -- Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada |
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Andreas Schwab
I guess you can't. The database contains those already on the memorial and those recorded after July 2020. All you can do is ask the archives at office@...
-- Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada |
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Robert Fraser
Maybe a silly question – but how can one check the database of names already on the memorial, to see if anyone’s missing?
Robert W Fraser Perth, Western Australia
-- Robert W Fraser, Perth, Western Australia |
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Jill Whitehead
What period of time does the memorial cover? In researching the Viennese family that lived in my house for 46 years, the reason they left was that their son Heinz Dukes (born Vienna 1916) (who is not in the list of names on the Public Memorial) was expelled from the University of Vienna medical school in his 3rd year as a medical student and killed by the nazis pre war in 1938. He is commemorated by the University of Vienna in their online Holocaust victims memorial book for the three years he was a student there, and his family details are given such as name, address, names and profession of parents, date of birth etc., and the fact he was Jewish. There are many such names in this list from the University of Vienna. I wonder if all sources have been looked at? Would the Public memorial include 1938?
Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK |
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Andreas Schwab
If members of your family are not listed, it may be because the documentation that was available was not enough for their inclusion. From one case I am involved it appears that a Yad Vashem page of testimony is not enough, they are looking for Austrian documents such as birth records, directory entries etc. In any case, I suggest that you contact the documentation centre and make a petition to enter your relatives into the data base. It is never too late:
-- "Any additions or corrections submitted by the deadline of August 10, 2020 will be considered for the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial. Victims registered after the deadline of will still be inscribed on another stele of the memorial.” Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada |
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dasw5@...
It appears not all victims are listed. I did not find members of my family
Dassy Wilen dasw5@... |
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mperlny@...
I attended the very moving opening ceremony yesterday afternoon. I located the names of my paternal grandparents Martha (Knoepfmacher) Perl and Leopold Perl, maternal great-grandparents Rachel (Moses) Spritzer and Samuel Spritzer, as well as the names of great aunts and uncles: Aron Schimmel, Nute Schimmel, Dobre (Schimmel) Rosenstadt, Friedrich Knoepfmacher.
Martin Perl (Presently in Vienna) |
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Stephen Katz
For those planning to visit Vienna, the memorial is located in the Ostarrichipark, a green area in front of the Austrian national bank. It is in Vienna's ninth district (near, incidentally, where I used to live).
This is the second memorial in Vienna to Holocaust victims. The other one, a rather austere structure, is located in the Judenplatz in Vienna's first district. The prime mover behind the new monument, Kurt Yakov Tutter, himself a Shoah survivor, who worked tirelessly for 20 years to bring it to realization, considered the monument in the Judenplatz to be "much too abstract," as it contained no names of victims. He wanted a place where people, like himself, could mourn relatives who had been murdered and for whom there are no graves to visit. Stephen Katz |
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Andreas Schwab
Yes, here is the link: https://www.doew.at/personensuche
-- Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada |
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June F Entman (jfentman)
Is it possible to search online for names on the wall?
June F. Entman St. Augustine, FL |
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Jan Meisels Allen
Austria opened its first public memorial listing the names of all 64,440 Austrian Jews killed in the Holocaust. he “Wall of Names” is made up of 160 circular granite memorial stones. It will cover 2,500 square meters in a Vienna park.
"They were deported, starved in ghettos, shot dead in forests or brutally murdered in extermination camps," conservative Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg told the opening ceremony for the memorial - an ellipse of stone walls in a park opposite Austria's central bank.
"With this wall of names we pull their names and their history out of oblivion. We give them back their identity, their individuality and with that part of their humanity. And they once again have a place in their homeland."
The project was first backed in 2018 by a previous coalition government of Schallenberg's conservatives and the far-right Freedom Party, which was founded in the 1950s and whose first leader had been an SS officer.
The project was co-financed by the Austrian government. It was set in motion by Holocaust survivor Kurt Yakov Tutter, whose family escaped Vienna in 1939.
Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg, the president of the Vienna Jewish community, Oskar Deutsch, and Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Nachman Shai attended the unveiling ceremony.
To read more see: https://www.reuters.com/world/vienna-opens-first-public-memorial-listing-holocaust-victims-names-2021-11-09/
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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