Austria Strengthens Partnership With Yad Vashem in the Fight Against Anti-Semitism

Lifestyle & TravelCulture ♦ Published: October 20, 2024; 18:45 ♦ (Vindobona)

Dani Dayan, Chairman of the Jerusalem Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem, visited Vienna to strengthen the close partnership between Israel and Austria. Dayan met with both Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen and Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer. Both emphasized the importance of continued cooperation in the fight against anti-Semitism and in preserving the memory of the Shoah.

Dani Dayan, Chairman of the Jerusalem Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem during a guided tour of the exhibition 'Torn from life. Fates of Austrian Jews after the Anschluss in 1938' at the Austrian Parliament in Vienna. / Picture: © Parlamentsdirektion/Arman Rastegar

In a public statement, Van der Bellen expressed concern about the rise in anti-Semitic incidents in Europe. In an English-language post on Platform X, he stated that addressing this worrying development was a priority while praising the work of Yad Vashem as a “place of eternal remembrance for the six million Jewish victims of the Shoah”. Nehammer added that Austria had extended its…