House of Names
The House of Names , Holocaust and Tolerance Center Austria, is the first and only Holocaust and Tolerance Center in Austria to date. It was, consisting of a permanent exhibition, housed in the basement of the Graz synagogue and was opened there on November 9, 2015. Within the Jewish community of Graz, the establishment of a Holocaust exhibition that was permanently visible and present during ongoing synagogue operations and community life aroused fierce resistance. In addition, running a museum turned out to be difficult to implement due to the high level of security. After founder Ruth Kaufmann left as president of the Jewish community, her successor Elie Rosen emphatically pushed for the exhibition to be moved, which was finally carried out in April 2017. It has been on view for a limited period of three years since January 2018 in the House of History of the Universalmuseum Joanneum .
Goal setting
The Holocaust and Tolerance Center Styria was designed and implemented on the initiative of the President of the Israelite Cultural Association Graz Ruth Kaufmann and the Association for Holocaust Remembrance and Promotion of Tolerance . The rooms were designed by the designer Uwe Kohlhammer as a space of remembrance and education and are intended to enable both the task of remembering and prevention. Four goals are specifically named:
- Remembrance of the Nazi atrocities and memory of the victims of the Shoah
- Age-appropriate and educational communication of the Holocaust , the ideology of exclusion and genocide
- Promotion of tolerance and improvement of intercultural communication
- Guided tours, exhibitions, teaching materials, events, further training, research assignments
swell
- Kerstin Tretina: House of Names Against Forgetting - First Holocaust Memorial Center opened in Graz , Ö1 : Practice - Religion and Society, November 11, 2015
- Jewish Community Graz: Press release from the President of April 15, 2017 and January 25, 2018
Web links
- House of Names , official website