Alpine Peace Crossing - Commemorative Hike Recalls Flight of Thousands of Jews During National Socialism

More+Events ♦ Published: July 5, 2022; 12:54 ♦ (Vindobona)

Last weekend, a very special memorial event took place in the Krimml Tauern, Salzburg. The Alpine Peace Crossing memorial association organises an annual hike here, which follows the route of thousands of Jews who fled to South Tyrol via the Krimml Tauern in 1947.

The commemorative event of a special kind took place in the Krimml Tauern, Salzburg. / Picture: © Verein für aktive Gedenk- und Erinnerungskultur APC (Alpine Peace Crossing)

Last weekend, a commemorative event of a special kind took place in the Krimml Tauern, Salzburg.

Since 2007, the Association for Active Remembrance and Remembrance Culture APC (Alpine Peace Crossing) has been organising a commemorative hike that follows the traces of the thousands of Jewish refugees who had to flee from Austria over the Krimml Tauern before, during and after the…