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Austria Breaks Ground for Holocaust Memorial in Vienna

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June 23, 2020
BERLIN, GERMANY – NOVEMBER 10: A white rose lies on one of the 2,711 stellae at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also called the Holocaust Memorial, on the 75th anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogroms on November 10, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Events are taking place across the country to commemorate the day in 1938 when Nazi gangs across Germany and Austria burned down over 1,000 synagogues, smashed Jewish-owned businesses, looted Jewish residences and killed several hundred Jews. Anti-Semitism was a central component of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power and won him wide-spread sympathy among ordinary Germans and Austrians. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

(JTA) — A new Holocaust memorial will be built in Vienna engraved with the names of 64,000 Austrian Jews killed by the Nazis.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Monday for the The Memorial to the Jewish Children, Women and Men of Austria who were Murdered in the Shoah, will sit in the central Ostarrichi Park, The Associated Press reported.

At least 1,000 other Jewish victims were killed by the Nazis but their names are not known,

Austria, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler, was annexed by Germany in 1938, a year before the start of World War II. Some 210,000 Jews lived in the country at the time.

The memorial, which is meant to be a place of reflection, will be made up of large stone slabs with the names set in a circle.

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