Remembering the Holocaust: A Perpetual Task

OrganizationsOther ♦ Published: January 28, 2020; 12:26 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian Parliament commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Even 75 years after the Shoah, Jewish life in Vienna was still determined by police protection and high walls. / Picture: © Parlamentsdirektion / Thomas Jantzen

It is important to carry the memory of the victims of the Shoah into the future. Not only to remember tirelessly what happened back then, but also to draw attention to where hatred and agitation can ultimately lead. That was the tenor of the Parliament's event on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Vienna Stock Exchange halls. In particular, the 75th anniversary of the…