https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, members of the last generation of Nazi concentration camp survivors are speaking out to share their stories and fears about the future. https://www.thelocal.at/20250115/how-did-the-world-allow-auschwitz-nazi-death-camp-survivors-speak-out-ahead-of-anniversary Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:44:51 +0100 how-did-the-world-allow-auschwitz-nazi-death-camp-survivors-speak-out-ahead-of-anniversary US authorities announced Friday that two drawings worth $2.5 million stolen by the Nazi regime and eventually displayed in American museums will be returned to relatives of Fritz Grunbaum, an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer killed in the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.at/20240120/us-to-return-artworks-stolen-by-nazis-to-heirs-of-austrian-jewish-cabaret-star Sat, 20 Jan 2024 10:44:10 +0100 us-to-return-artworks-stolen-by-nazis-to-heirs-of-austrian-jewish-cabaret-star New York authorities have announced the return of $9 million worth of art by Austrian artist Egon Schiele stolen by the Nazi regime to the family of Fritz Grunbaum, an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer killed in the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.at/20230921/artwork-stolen-by-nazis-to-be-returned-to-heirs-of-austrian-jewish-cabaret-star Thu, 21 Sep 2023 11:26:51 +0200 artwork-stolen-by-nazis-to-be-returned-to-heirs-of-austrian-jewish-cabaret-star An amendment had to be passed to remedy "unacceptable differences in treatment" of the descendants of Holocaust victims. https://www.thelocal.at/20220318/austria-improves-nationality-law-for-descendants-of-nazi-victims Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:34:54 +0100 austria-improves-nationality-law-for-descendants-of-nazi-victims German prosecutors on Friday charged a 95-year-old man with more than 36,000 counts of accessory to murder over his alleged time as a Nazi concentration camp guard during World War II. https://www.thelocal.at/20181123/berlin-man-95-charged-over-36000-deaths-in-nazi-camp Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:56:56 +0100 berlin-man-95-charged-over-36000-deaths-in-nazi-camp Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen warned against "the politics of scapegoating" on Thursday as his country marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazis' anti-Semitic Kristallnacht pogrom. https://www.thelocal.at/20181109/austrian-president-warns-against-scapegoating-on-anniversary-of-nazi-pogrom Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:10:54 +0100 austrian-president-warns-against-scapegoating-on-anniversary-of-nazi-pogrom "Even before the Anschluss, Austrians had the Nazi symbol hidden under their lapels," says Marko Feingold, the oldest living Austrian survivor of the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.at/20180317/holocaust-survivor-marko-feingold-104-recalls-the-anschluss Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:50:00 +0100 holocaust-survivor-marko-feingold-104-recalls-the-anschluss An Austrian far-right figure at the centre of a scandal over a songbook praising the Holocaust has stepped down, blaming a "media witch-hunt". https://www.thelocal.at/20180201/austrian-far-right-figure-resigns-over-nazi-song-book-scandal Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:21:24 +0100 austrian-far-right-figure-resigns-over-nazi-song-book-scandal Austria's chancellor said Wednesday that one of the country's controversial nationalist fraternities would be disbanded after it emerged that it had printed song texts celebrating the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities. https://www.thelocal.at/20180131/austria-to-dissolve-nazi-songbook-fraternity Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:02:49 +0100 austria-to-dissolve-nazi-songbook-fraternity The far-right candidate in an Austrian state election was under pressure on Tuesday following a magazine report about song lyrics celebrating the Holocaust and other Nazi atrocities. https://www.thelocal.at/20180124/austria-far-right-candidate-under-pressure-over-nazi-songbook Wed, 24 Jan 2018 12:53:58 +0100 austria-far-right-candidate-under-pressure-over-nazi-songbook Budding Austrian judges and prosecutors will be required to take World War II history lessons, the justice ministry said on Friday, after a controversial ruling sparked outrage among Holocaust survivors. https://www.thelocal.at/20160311/holocaust-re-education-slated-for-prosecutors Fri, 11 Mar 2016 20:59:38 +0100 holocaust-re-education-slated-for-prosecutors A 71-year-old doctor from Upper Austria has been sentenced to one year’s house arrest for Holocaust denial. https://www.thelocal.at/20150327/doctor-71-sentenced-for-holocaust-denial Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:35:33 +0100 doctor-71-sentenced-for-holocaust-denial A new museum dedicated to the life and work of Austrian holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl is opening in Vienna on Thursday March 26th. https://www.thelocal.at/20150325/viktor-frankl-museum-to-open-in-vienna Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:45:35 +0100 viktor-frankl-museum-to-open-in-vienna Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, ageing survivors and dignitaries are gathering at the site synonymous with the Holocaust to honour the victims. https://www.thelocal.at/20150127/survivors-mark-auschwitz-anniversary Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:43:00 +0100 survivors-mark-auschwitz-anniversary A new museum dedicated to those who helped 10,000 mostly Jewish children in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland to escape from the Nazis is opening in Vienna. https://www.thelocal.at/20141204/museum-showcases-memories-of-kindertransport Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:01:00 +0100 museum-showcases-memories-of-kindertransport Daphna Amit (a translator) and her brother Dan Arnold (a tour guide) grew up speaking German in Binyamina, Israel. Their grandmother was Paula Arnold, an essayist, journalist and translator from Vienna, born in 1885. https://www.thelocal.at/20141127/holocaust-survivors-grandchildren-return-to-vienna Thu, 27 Nov 2014 17:32:00 +0100 holocaust-survivors-grandchildren-return-to-vienna Austria’s national railway company ÖBB has held an exhibition at the European Parliament which looks at a dark chapter in its past - the firm’s complicity in the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.at/20141110/austrian-railways-exhibition-about-holocaust-complicity Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:10:00 +0100 austrian-railways-exhibition-about-holocaust-complicity Austria’s first Holocaust memorial centre will open in the country’s second largest city of Graz next year. https://www.thelocal.at/20141105/austrias-first-holocaust-memorial-centre-to-open-in-2015 Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:57:00 +0100 austrias-first-holocaust-memorial-centre-to-open-in-2015 In 2004, Karen Frostig inherited letters written from her grandparents to her father, who had been arrested by the Gestapo and expelled from Austria in 1938. https://www.thelocal.at/20140808/vienna-project-honors-austrian-holocaust-victims Fri, 08 Aug 2014 02:50:00 +0200 vienna-project-honors-austrian-holocaust-victims