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Field Marshal Goering spoke at the Northwest Station Hall, which is situated on the corner of the Leopoldstadt, Vienna’s Jewish quarter. Occupants of neighboring buildings were ordered to keep ...
In fear for her life, Kurt’s Jewish single mother fled Nazi Vienna for the UK in 1939, leaving him behind. This 14-year-old’s story of abandonment and adversity can be told for the first time ...
(JTA) — A man opened fire in an area of Vienna with several synagogues, killing four and injuring 22, but the attack did not involve the Jewish institutions, the president of the city’s ...
In other words, the Jewish community organized training ... mother from the Schiffmann family apartment on Hollandstrasse, in Vienna’s Second District. “Something which has remained with ...
Holocaust memorial stumbling stones were splattered with yellow paint in Vienna, European Jewish organizations ... we desecrated in Vienna’s 2nd district. The Union shared a picture of three ...
For two centuries, this neighborhood remained the epicenter of Jewish life in Vienna, an identity that still lives among the exhibits found at the Museum Judenplatz. This small yet effective ...
When Reuss arrived, however, in late 1935, Vienna still had a vibrant Jewish community free from ... an elegant building in the city’s museum district. He was still posing as a farmer, and ...
Explores the central role of Jewish patrons as shapers of Viennese modernism A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, would modernism ...