Kurt Yakov Tutter

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Kurt Yakov Tutter (born 1930 in Vienna ) is an Austrian - Canadian artist. He is the founder of the Walls of Name Memorial Association in Vienna.

Life

After the annexation of Austria, Tutter was able to flee to Canada via Belgium. His parents were deported by the Nazi regime and murdered in Auschwitz .

Memorial wall

Since the late 1990s, Tutter has been calling for a memorial wall to be erected to name the approximately 66,000 murdered Austrian Jews. The memorial for the Austrian Jewish victims of the Shoah on Judenplatz in downtown Vienna, erected in 2000, is inadequate. His proposal envisages two-meter high memorial walls made of polished granite. The engraving of the names of the dead is representative of a burial site. It has an important place in Judaism. The memorial was originally planned for the Aspanggrund , where the train station was located, from which 50,000 Jews were deported to the Nazi regime's extermination camps . However, the Aspangbahnhof memorial was erected there in 2017 . A location in the city center is now planned, Schmerlingplatz within sight of Parliament .

The Walls of Name Memorial Association was founded in 2000. The proponents' committee from 2005 included the National Council members Ulrike Baumgartner-Gabitzer , Caspar Eine , Harald Himmer , Kai Jan Krainer and Erwin Niederwieser as well as the Federal Councilors Albrecht Konecny and Vincenz Liechtenstein .

Models are the Hall of Names in Yad Vashem , the Mémorial de la Shoah in Paris, which opened in 2005 , the national memorial for the Jewish victims of Belgium during the German occupation in Anderlecht near Brussels and the Dutch Holocaust memorial planned in Amsterdam. The turquoise-blue federal government accepted the proposal in March 2018 and announced that it would implement Tutter's draft.

Web links

literature

  • Kurt Yakov Tutter: "To a real Weanah child". Impressions of a life, in "Zwischenwelt", Zs. Der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft , vol. 18, no. 3, Vienna 2001, p. 55f. (Special Issue: Children in Persecution, in Exile and in Literature, Part 1)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism : Kurt Yakov Tutter , accessed on March 14, 2018
  2. ↑ Vienna City Administration: Memorial to the deported neighbor , January 12, 2005, accessed on March 14, 2018
  3. ^ "National Monument voor de Joodse martelaren van België - Mémorial National aux Martyres Juifs de Belgique"
  4. ^ Der Standard (Vienna): Government approves Shoah memorial in downtown Vienna , March 11, 2018, accessed on March 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Tutter, Kurt Yakov
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Canadian artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna