Project Description
The project highlights two major pogroms against Jews in Austria and Poland: the November 1938 pogrom in Vienna and other Austrian cities, and the July 1946 pogrom in Kielce. Its goal is to strengthen public understanding of these violent events while honouring the memory of the victims. To bring this history into today’s public consciousness, the project partners have created a series of interventions in public spaces.
Findings
- The intervention Illuminated projected the façade of the former Jewish bookshop Belf onto the exterior of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute building.
- The guided city tour Violence 1938 explored traces of the 1938 violence in Vienna’s present-day Neubau district.
- The lecture How Pogroms Begin – Lessons from 1941–1946 was presented within the interdisciplinary forum of the Freedom Games.
Project Partners:
- Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies
- Institute of Tolerance in Łódź
Place of Realisation:
- Austria
- Poland