Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (Vienna, Austria)
I got to visit the Austrian Jewish Holocaust Memorial in Judenplatz a a few days ago. Since before coming to Vienna I've been very interested in seeing it as 1) I've studied some of Rachel Whiteread's work in various art history/art appreciation classes, including this monument and 2) the Holocaust has always meant a lot to me on a personal level.
Warning: I'm not a good cameraman in any sense and this video is entirely unedited. Also since it was cold you'll hear my awkwardly heavy breathing and sniffling. xDD
I wanted to make a video documenting the experience and also to share with my friends and family back home in the States. Thanks for watching! If you're interested in my other study abroad experiences in Vienna, please check out my blog at
This video is dedicated to all victims and survivors of the Holocaust and their families, friends and descendants, respectively.
Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial in Vienna
Read the Post at: citytraveljournal.com/single-post/2018/12/08/Judenplatz-Holocaust-Memorial-in-Vienna
The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial is the central memorial for more than 65 thousand Holocaust victims of the Jewish-Austrian community.
Simon Wiesenthal was the initiator of the monument, and it was built by the city of Vienna.
The monument is located at Judenplatz, in the old city of Vienna. It was the place of the ancient synagogue of the middle ages Jews of Vienna, and it burned down in 1421 alongside 270 Jews who refused to convert their religion. The other Jews were banished from the city.
The remains of the old synagogue are buried under the Memorial and can be accessed and seen through the near Judenplatz Jewish Museum.
The memorial looks like a library, symbolizing the spirituality of the Jewish people.
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AUSTRIA: MEMORIAL TO HOLOCAUST VICTIMS UNVEILED
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A memorial to Austrian Jews killed in the Holocaust was unveiled in Vienna on Wednesday, almost four years later than planned.
The Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, initiated the project because Austria had no Holocaust memorial of its own.
The memorial will stand as a testimony to the almost complete eradication of the country's Jewish community in World War Two.
SOUNDBITE: (German)
We have recognised the guilt of many Austrians in the Nazi crimes and we have to request again and again that today in Austria every act of anti-semitism and racism is suppressed and fought against.
SUPERCAPTION: Thomas Klespril, President of Austria
The memorial went ahead despite initial opposition.
SOUNDBITE: (German)
This is a warning for future generations. National socialism still lives. Mainly the media reports of attacks on Synagogues and other Jewish Objects, attacks on Jewish cemeteries, other activities of young right radicals. Do we need further impetus to warn the future generations again and again.
SUPERCAPTION: Thomas Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter
Construction work on the Nameless Library by the British artist Rachel Whiteread was halted in 1996 because of a row over the site in Judenplatz, or Jews Square, in the centre of Vienna.
Excavation work on the baroque square revealed the remains of a medieval synagogue where dozens of Jews committed suicide in a pogrom in 1421.
However, a compromise to allow both the archaeological findings and the monument to coexist on the square paved the way for the completion of the project this year.
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Episode 2 Vienna's Judenplatz - www.jewishinvienna.com
In this episode, we at Jewish in Vienna delve into the history of Vienna's famous Judenplatz (Jewish Square) where the first medieval Jewish settlement was established until the expulsion of Jews in 1421. Today the area hosts the national Shoah (Holocaust) memorial, dedicated to the 65,000 Austrian Jews which perished in the Holocaust.
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The Jewish history is closely connected to the history of Vienna. Come with us on our Jewish Tour and discover the footsteps of Jewish life, it's past and it's present, in Vienna!
Featured in this episode in order of appearance:
1. Jewish Museum Vienna
2. Jewish City Temple
3. Museum Judenplatz Shoa Memorial
4. Theater Nestroyhof Hamakom
5. Kosherland
6. Café Tachles
7. Tel Aviv Beach
Total walking distance: about 1 hour
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VIENNA, EXPLORING Judenplatz (JEWISH SQUARE) on a rainy day (AUSTRIA)
SUBSCRIBE: - Judenplatz (Jewish Square, Vienna) on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Vic Stefanu, vstefanu@yahoo.com. Taped on Sunday, November 24, 2013 at 1.30pm under heavy rain. Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria, and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.8 million (2.6 million within the metropolitan area, nearly one third of Austria's population), and its cultural, economic, and political centre.
Austria is a German-speaking country in Central Europe, characterized by mountain villages, baroque architecture, Imperial history and rugged Alpine terrain. Vienna, its Danube River capital, is home to the Schönbrunn and Hofburg palaces. It has counted Mozart, Strauss and Freud among its residents. The country’s other notable regions include the northern Bohemian Forest, Traunsee Lake and eastern hillside vineyards.
Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, Vienna
Judenplatz, Vienna 1996 - Part 1
Lecture date: 1996-11-06
In the autumn of 1995, Simon Wiesenthal, director of the Jewish Documentation Centre, suggested that a monument dedicated to the Jewish victims of the Nazi regime be erected in Vienna. The proposed site for the monument was Judenplatz, the spiritual and intellectual centre of Jewish culture in Vienna during the Middle Ages. From proposals by an international group of artists and architects, the jury, headed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein, chose the British artist Rachel Whiteread. In common with other works by Whiteread this project represents the inverted interior of a room which exists in memory and in history. Reinforced concrete in construction, the exterior surfaces of the monument are shaped as library walls turned inside out. On the front wall of the cuboid structure is a double wing door which conceals an inaccessible 'anonymous library'. This symposium, coinciding with an exhibition of the same name, discusses a range of issues raised by the competition.
Mark Cousins - Introduction
Sylvie Liska - The Judenplatz Memorial Project
Andrew Benjamin - Monumentalising Alterity: The Danger of Recuperation
Rebecca Comay - Memory Block
NB: Cuts out during Rebecca Comay's talk.
Rachel Whiteread: ‘A memorial needs to be visible but not screaming’
2017 Ada Louise Huxtable prize winner Rachel Whiteread talks to us about her ‘shy sculptures’, working in series, how Gordon Matta-Clark influenced her student days and why she finds it difficult to collaborate with architects.
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Judenplatz, Vienna 1996 - Part 2
Lecture date: 1996-11-06
In the autumn of 1995, Simon Wiesenthal, director of the Jewish Documentation Centre, suggested that a monument dedicated to the Jewish victims of the Nazi regime be erected in Vienna. The proposed site for the monument was Judenplatz, the spiritual and intellectual centre of Jewish culture in Vienna during the Middle Ages. From proposals by an international group of artists and architects, the jury, headed by the Viennese architect Hans Hollein, chose the British artist Rachel Whiteread. In common with other works by Whiteread this project represents the inverted interior of a room which exists in memory and in history. Reinforced concrete in construction, the exterior surfaces of the monument are shaped as library walls turned inside out. On the front wall of the cuboid structure is a double wing door which conceals an inaccessible 'anonymous library'. This symposium, coinciding with an exhibition of the same name, discusses a range of issues raised by the competition.
Homa Farjadi - The Slow Tactility of History
Mark Cousins - Inside Outcast
Q & A panel session with symposium speakers.
NB: Missing section of Q & A.
Fleeing the Nazis: Austrian Jewish Refugees to the United States Panel I
Moderator: Patricia Heberer-Rice, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The US and the Refugee Crisis in the late 1930s
Rebecca Erbelding, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Resilience and Rescue: The Ordinary Heroes of Vienna's IKG
Ilana F. Offenberger, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
The First Documented Expulsion of Jewish Citizens from the Territory of the Third Reich in March and April 1938
Gerhard Baumgartner, Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance
Deportation and Extermination of Austrian Jews: The State of Research
Winfried Garscha, Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance
Jewish Vienna October 2010
Jewish Vienna in October 2010.
וינה יפהפייה, אבל יהודים אין - אפילו מתים
At the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th century, Vienna was one of the most prominent centres of Jewish culture in Europe, but during the period of National-Socialist rule in Austria, Vienna’s Jewish population was almost entirely deported and murdered in the Holocaust
The first Jews lived in the area near the Seitenstettengasse; from around 1280, they also lived around the modern-day Judenplatz. The centre of Jewish cultural and religious life was located here from the 13th to the 15th century, until the Vienna Gesera of 1420/21, when Albert V ordered the annihilation of the city’s Jews.
Traveling Solo in Vienna - Austria Day 1 [4k]
Traveling Solo in Vienna - Austria Day 1
Earlier this month I (Yuan) took a trip to Vienna. I had initially bought tickets on a whim and just sorta ended up in Austria. It's been awhile since I've last vlogged, but thought it'd be good to document the trip. This one is a bit short, but I hope you enjoy! More to come :) #VisitAustria #VisitVienna
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Austria / Vienna - Aspang railway station memorial for deportation of 47,035 Jews
A memorial for the deportation of 47,035 Austrian Jews was inaugurated on the exact site of the former Aspang railway station, the port of departure for the transports. Of the 47,035 Jewish men and women deported from Aspang Railway Station, only 1,073 survived.
Today it is a renewing residential area within Landstraße, the 3rd municipal District of Vienna. The memorial is located within the Leon Zelmann Park.
בספטמבר 2017 נחנכה בווינה אנדרטה לזכר 47,035 מיהודי אוסטריה, אשר נשלחו בטרנספורטים מתחנת הרכבת אספאנג, ברובע השלישי של העיר. מתוכם שרדו 1,073 איש בלבד. האנדרטה ממוקמת בתוך פארק ליאון זלמן, בדיוק במקום בו שכנה תחנת הרכבת עד שנהרסה בשנת 1977.
WWII commemoration: Vienna's forgotten Jewish cemetery
Before 1938, the Jewish community in Vienna consisted of 250.000 people. Almost none of them returned after the war, leaving the current community at a mere 7.500 and the cemetery neglected. #LocalHeroes
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President Peres and President Fischer at the service in the Judenplatz in Vienna
President Peres and President Fischer both spoke at the service in the Judenplatz in Vienna which was attended by members of the Jewish community of Vienna
President Peres said, I begin my visit to this country by bowing my head before this memorial. Paying respect to the thousands of Austrian Jews sent to death camps from Vienna. The Judenplatz was at the heart of a vibrant, thriving Jewish community. And with the horrifying tragedy of the Shoah, we lost a culture and heritage like no other. From the 176,000 Jews of Vienna, only 5000 remained after the dark chapter of the Holocaust. The State of Israel is our victory. A fortress of triumph against the dark hand of the Nazis. A home to the memory of our six million brothers and sisters. A promise to the survivors of the horrors. A hope for the future of the Jewish People. Let this be a warning to us and to posterity. We may not weaken for a single moment our common effort to uproot hatred and strife. To convert sword and war into brotherhood and friendship between peoples. To replace ruin and destruction with redemption and Tikkun Olam, bettering the world.
President Peres ended with the Jewish prayer, the Kaddish, in honor of the victims of the Holocaust.