Memorial for the Jewish Children, Women and Men from Austria Murdered in the Shoah

In the approximately 6000m2 large Ostarrichipark at Otto-Wagner-Platz in the 9th district, the „Memorial for the Jewish Children, Women and Men from Austria Murdered in the Shoah“ was opened in Nov. 2021 for the approximately 65,000 Jewish Austrians who were murdered in the course of the Shoah.

The memorial, initiated about 20 years earlier by the Austrian-Canadian artist Kurt Yakov Tutter, displays lists of names of the victims on 180 light-colored granite slabs, which were provided by the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance. Tutter’s parents were murdered by the Nazi regime in the Auschwitz concentration camp; he himself was able to escape to Canada via Belgium as a child.

The square was created after the demolition of the Alser Barracks, which were located there until 1912, and was built on in a reduced form in 1925 with the neoclassical monumental building, today the seat of the Austrian National Bank. The park name refers to the oldest surviving form of the name in Austria, Ostarrichi.