Presentation
Tuesday, May 29th, 3:30 pm
Location: Leon-Zelman-Park, 1030 Vienna

In 1939 and 1941/42, a total of 47.035 Austrian Jews, men and women, were deported from Aspang Railway Station on 47 transports to Nazi-established ghettos, extermination camps, and killing sites. Only about one-thousand people survived.
For most of the more than 66.000 Austrian Holocaust victims, the journey to extermination began in mid-town Vienna.
The City of Vienna has set up a memorial in remembrance of the Jewish Austrians who were deported from here and eventually murdered.
PRINZpod’s Aspang Railway Station Memorial consists of two 30 meter long converging concrete rails as a reference to the rail tracks at the station, which was demolished in 1977. The rails lead into a dark and hollow concrete block, a symbol of death, nothingness, and oblivion. (PRINZpod have lived and worked in Vienna as a team since 1984.)

Published by Kunst im öffentlichen Raum GmbH
Date of release 2018
Prefaces Oskar Deutsch, Michael Ludwig, Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Martina Taig, Maria Vassilakou, Rudolf Zabrana
Texts Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Dieter J. Hecht, Michaela Raggam-Blesch, Herbert Schrott, Heidemarie Uhl