“My Teacher, Mentor, and Idol”. Personal Memories of Simon Wiesenthal: Speech on the Jahrzeit Event Held in Honour of Simon Wiesenthal on 22 September 2020 Cover Image

„Mein Lehrer, Mentor und Vorbild.“ Persönliche Erinnerungen an Simon Wiesenthal: Rede anlässlich der Jahrzeit-Veranstaltung für Simon Wiesenthal am 22. September 2020
“My Teacher, Mentor, and Idol”. Personal Memories of Simon Wiesenthal: Speech on the Jahrzeit Event Held in Honour of Simon Wiesenthal on 22 September 2020

Author(s): Ariel Muzicant
Subject(s): Jewish studies, Scientific Life, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien
Keywords: Simon Wiesenthal;Jewish Community of Vienna;Bruno Kreisky;postwar Vienna;

Summary/Abstract: On 20 September 2005, Simon Wiesenthal passed away. Fifteen years after his death, the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) and the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG) commemorated the Jewish Austrian survivor, public persona, (re)searcher of Nazi crimes, and mentsh Simon Wiesenthal in a memorial walking tour in the City of Vienna (concept by Béla Rásky and Sandro Fasching). The presentations and talks delivered at the different landmarks of this memorial tour can be reread in this issue of S:I.M.O.N. (see the contribution in this issue Jahrzeit. Jorzajt. In memoriam Simon Wiesenthal 1908 – 2005. Ein Rundgang zum Nachlesen, https://doi.org/10.23777/SN.0220/EVE_VWIT01 and the whole event can be viewed on the VWI YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAMeuDxW5oA).

  • Issue Year: 7/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 95-100
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: German