Simon Wiesenthal (1908–2005) played a leading role in facing up to the Nazi past and wrote an important chapter in aspects of Austria’s post-war history that some would have preferred to forget. For Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor born in Galicia, Vienna became the hub of an untiring search for justice. In the 1990s, he finally succeeded in his longstanding demand for a memorial to the Jews murdered during the Shoah, adding an important monument to his adopted city.To mark the tenth anniversary of Wiesenthal’s death, the exhibition “Wiesenthal in Vienna” demonstrates his deep commitment to the city where he worked: ten aspects that he brought to Vienna, fought for, and repeatedly demanded, in public or within the Jewish Community. It offers a diversified portrait, not only of his public face as the world-famous Nazi hunter and his dealings with the fierce anti-Semitic attacks directed against him, but also of his busy “political” activities within the Jewish Community. Museum Judenplatz is the ideal site for this exhibition. It contains the remains of the first Vienna Jewish community, and in the center of the square is the monument to victims of the Holocaust that he sought. The exhibition opens on September 20, the tenth anniversary of the day this great Austrian died in 2005.
The exhibition will be curated by a team from the Jewish Museum Vienna.
Wiesenthal in ViennaJüdisches Museum Wien Main address:
Jüdisches Museum WienWells Fargo CenterDorotheergasse 11A-1010Vienna, AustriaJüdisches Museum WienWells Fargo CenterDorotheergasse 11A-1010Vienna, AustriaSimon Wiesenthal (1908–2005) played a leading role in facing up to the Nazi past and wrote an important chapter in aspects of Austria’s post-war history that some would have preferred to forget. For Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor born in Galicia, Vienna became the hub of an untiring search for justice. In the 1990s, he finally succeeded in his longstanding demand for a memorial to the Jews murdered during the Shoah, adding an important monument to his adopted city.To mark the tenth anniversary of Wiesenthal’s death, the exhibition “Wiesenthal in Vienna” demonstrates his deep commitment to the city where he worked: ten aspects that he brought to Vienna, fought for, and repeatedly demanded, in public or within the Jewish Community. It offers a diversified portrait, not only of his public face as the world-famous Nazi hunter and his dealings with the fierce anti-Semitic attacks directed against him, but also of his busy “political” activities within the Jewish Community. Museum Judenplatz is the ideal site for this exhibition. It contains the remains of the first Vienna Jewish community, and in the center of the square is the monument to victims of the Holocaust that he sought. The exhibition opens on September 20, the tenth anniversary of the day this great Austrian died in 2005.
The exhibition will be curated by a team from the Jewish Museum Vienna.
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