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In 1938, an Austrian Nazi family looted a Jewish home. Their heirs connect over a table

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:08:45 +0000

After a woman unearthed a dark family history while cleaning her attic, she took steps to make things right - highlighting systemic problems with Austria's Holocaust restitution policies

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Paper trail: How a series of ads in a WWII-era UK daily revealed a tragic family history

Sat, 31 May 2025 07:16:59 +0000

Julian Borger traced his father's escape from post-Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a new memoir

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At 115, Vienna’s Jewish Hakoah sports club still thriving, with diverse membership

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:36:49 +0000

For club president Thomas Loewy its history holds personal significance, while for some non-Jewish members, it's a welcoming opportunity to compete

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7 looted artworks repatriated to scions of Jewish cabaret star killed in Holocaust

Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:52:17 +0000

At emotional ceremony, descendants of Fritz Grünbaum thank authorities for 'justice' after return of Egon Schiele paintings

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Austrian group asks to place Holocaust exhibit at Hitler birth site

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:08:22 +0000

Friends of Yad Vashem in Austria seeks to display information about Righteous Among the Nations at dictator's former home, as government turns building into police station

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Jewish businessman returns Beethoven skull pieces to Vienna

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 07:46:30 +0000

Paul Kaufmann inherited composer's 10 skull parts, brought by his family to the US upon fleeing the Nazis

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To shift ‘perspective,’ Vienna to tilt statue of antisemitic mayor admired by Hitler

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 13:32:08 +0000

Artist proposing idea hopes bronze of Karl Lueger will look like it's falling over; Jewish leaders call measure 'halfhearted,' press for removal

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How Austria’s Jewish chancellor helped country evade responsibility for Nazi past

Thu, 13 Apr 2023 01:52:35 +0000

A new book by Israeli diplomat Daniel Aschheim examines Bruno Kreisky, Austria's longest-serving leader, and his ambivalent relationship with his own Judaism and the Jewish state

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No longer verboten: Descendants of Holocaust survivors seek Austrian citizenship

Thu, 08 Dec 2022 16:52:31 +0000

After a revision of Austrian citizenship laws, candidates don't need to give up their native passports. Read about Giuliana Schnitzler, Julie Bronder and Amy Feineman's paths there

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Tom Stoppard’s alt-neu Broadway play ‘Leopoldstadt’ is 140 minutes of shock and awe

Mon, 03 Oct 2022 19:18:15 +0000

Now running in NYC, the show is contemporary but reads like a classic, tracing a Jewish family through the surge and subsequent decimation of 20th-century Austrian Jewry

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Attack on Rushdie mirrors 1925 killing of writer who satirized Vienna antisemitism

Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:14:46 +0000

Jewish-born Hugo Bettauer, whose 'The City Without Jews' became an international best seller, was assassinated after being denounced by Austrian Nazis

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In Germany and Austria, a movement of grandmothers is taking on the far-right

Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:32:17 +0000

Omas Gegen Rechts has picked up steam since starting off with 10 elderly women in 2017, and its efforts are being recognized by progressive activists and the far-right alike

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Austrian Holocaust survivor who spoke out against nation’s far right dies aged 94

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 18:04:26 +0000

Gertrude Pressburger went viral in a video during country's 2016 presidential campaign

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In LA, Austria honors Jews who fled WWII darkness to forge Hollywood’s Golden Age

Sat, 25 Dec 2021 02:12:53 +0000

Together with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and others, the Austrian consulate pays tribute to expat stars with a symposium and 6-week film series running through Jan. 31

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On eve of Kristallnacht, activists ‘rename’ Vienna streets honoring antisemites

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 21:39:46 +0000

Protest, publicized by the Austrian Union of Jewish Students, sees street signs named for Nazis and SS members pasted over with a temporary homage to resistance leaders

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