Memorial and Liberation Events 2016

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Each year the Austrian Mauthausen Committee (MKÖ) organises and coordinates the largest memorial and liberation event in Europe in close cooperation with survivor organisations at a national (Austrian Camp Community) and international level (Comité International de Mauthausen), with this year seeing the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen Concentration Camp. As well as the main liberation commemorations there are many other events that take place in the former sub-camps of Mauthausen and sites of Nazi terror. In total, 40,000 people participated in the memorial and liberation events in 2015 of whom 22,000 people, including concentration camp survivors and many high- level politicians from within Austria and abroad, were at Mauthausen concentration camp with the remaining 18,000 at more than 90 memorial events at former sub-camps and memorial sites, sending the strong message of “Never Again”.

The majority of events, with participants from the region but also from many countries throughout Europe, were organised by local organisations and initiatives in close cooperation with the Austrian Mauthausen Committee.

Each year since 2006 has been designated a special theme related to the history of Mauthausen Concentration Camp and the history of Nazism in Austria to frame the events. The relevance to the present day is an essential element of the topic chosen each year and should especially work to help link the discussion of the context and ideology of National So- cialism to the lives and experiences of young people today. The theme chosen for this year’s memorial and liberation events is “International Solidarity”.

The continued commemoration of the victims of Nazi crimes, particularly those people imprisoned in Mauthausen and its sub-camps as well as the engagement in anti-fascism and anti-racism work with young people are the main activities of the MKÖ. The MKÖ has been able to reach 63,000 young people in recent years through civil courage training, guided tours through the memorial site of Mauthausen concentration camp and its sub-camps, the pre-visit preparation and post-visit work, anti-racism workshops such as the new workshop “Wir sind alle”, the racism simulation game “Miramix” as well as the diverse event-related and thematic youth projects. In autumn 2016, the first tours took place as part of the new educational project “denk mal wien”.

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“International Solidarity”

For the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camps international solidarity had a particular significance. This was also the case in Mauthausen and its sub-camps, where Austrians formed only a small minority of the people imprisoned there. The concentration camp prisoners realised very quickly that any resistance against the SS in the camp and the prisoners in positions of power would have to have to be based on cooperation and overcoming national and other differences. Any act of organised solidarity or even political discussion was punished by death in the concentration camps. These illegal resistance organisations were active in Mauthausen by 1944 at the latest.

Solidarity began to develop with the arrival of 1600 prisoners from Dachau concentration camp in 1939. Other small groups formed along national lines as prisoners arrived from countries such a Poland, Spain, the Czech Republic and the former Yugoslavia. The Spanish Republicans brought solidarity to an international level. In the clerk’s office of Mauthausen concentration camp the Czechs, Spanish and Germans – and later other nationalities – were active. The political prisoners in this clerk’s office were central to the solidarity and resistance.

International solidarity in the concentration camp took many forms, including encouraging the development of illegal resistance groups in the sub-camps, establishing contact with the local community, minimising conflict between the different national groups in the camp, listening to foreign radio broadcasts and spreading information about the course of the war, routing out SS informants, supplying prisoners – especially the sick – with food and clothing, and offering a cultural programme, such as music. They also undertook acts of sabotage and prepared for a military uprising in the case of a mass liquidation of the camp.

By winter 1944/45, the illegal solidarity had developed to such an extent that individual prisoners who were in particular danger could be rescued. At the end of April 1945 an international committee was founded by Heinrich Dürmayer, a prisoner who had arrived in Mauthausen from Auschwitz in January 1945. The committee met several times a day until the liberation of the camp and after liberation served to keep the administration running. In the days leading up to and during liberation in May 1945 the committee came into its own, ensuring the orderly handing over of the camp to the Americans, helping to administer first aid and emergency help and assisting in the repatriation of prisoners. Several national committees were founded between the day of liberation and the 8th May 1945 and sent representatives to the international committee. With the departure of the Soviet prisoners on 16th May 1945, the International Mauthausen Committee issued an emphatic plea to contribute with mutual respect and solidarity to the rebuilding of a free and just world. May 1947 saw a meeting of former prisoners and their families to commemorate their liberation.

The International Mauthausen Committee (Comité International de Mauthausen) remains active to this day and in- cludes representatives from 21 countries in Europe and the USA. In 2015, they spoke out in the context of the refugee crisis: “We feel sadness, helplessness and disgust, and are reminded of a reality – as Jews, “Gypsies” and political prisoners – of being shunted between the borders of the so-called democratic states with negligence and indifference. We are true to our vow of “never again” and will fight to make sure that the lack of international solidarity towards the refugees does not go ignored.”

A lack of international solidarity becomes ever clearer. One of the causes is the relationship between industrialised and developing countries and is demonstrated once more through war and the resulting waves of refugees. However, in- stead of a focus on international solidarity, the Far-Right gets stronger, fear prevails, and scaremongering and the de- mands for the building of fences and turning Europe into a fortress get louder. Now, more than ever, is the time to see solidarity on an international scale.

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“International Solidarity” Programme for the Memorial and Liberation events 2016 Mauthausen, former sub-camps and sites of Nazi terror

Sunday, 15th May 2016 Memorial site at International Memorial & Liberation Commemora- the former tion concentration from camp 8:30 Rallies at the national memorials Mauthausen Upper Austria 9:00 Ecumenical Service (Chapel) with Bishop Dr. Michael BÜNKER, Father Mag. Christian ÖHLER and Metro- politan Dr. Arsenios KARDAMAKIS Music: Mauthausen Gospel Team led by Christine ARNDT

from Gathering of the former prisoners, the delegations 9:30 and the diplomatic representatives at the former roll call area (please be aware of the sectors – our staff will gladly help)

10:00 Joint liberation celebration at the former roll call area. In 2016 the liberation celebration will take a stronger “Collaboration” character with all participants. Opening address: Willi MERNYI, Chair of the Aus- trian Mauthausen Committee Presenters: Konstanze BREITEBNER, Mercedes ECHERER Musical accompaniment from the ensemble “Wid- erstand” and the “Ensemble 4 der Militärmusik OÖ” with pieces such as the European Hymn and “Moor- soldaten”. Memorial speeches: During the memorial proces- sion, representatives from different national survivor and victim groups from Belgium, Italy, Serbia and the Ukraine will give speeches in their national languages.

from All participants will leave the former camp section. 11:30 Official end of the liberation ceremony.

11:45 Rallies at the national memorial (Further information in the Programme)

12:30 IInternational Youth Memorial Rally (at the Young Person’s memorial)

13:30 End of the national rallies.

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Saturday, 9th January 2016 St. Veit im Jauntal AM Memorial Mass for the mother and daughter resis- Memorial plaque tance fighters Terezija and Terezija Mičej Carinthia Tuesday, 23rd February 2016 Mauthausen 19:00 Cultural und Memorial event for the Mühlviertel Donausaal Manhunt “Traces of escape” Upper Austria Werner Schneyder reads texts about and by people who had been forced to flee their homes. Presenta- tion of the film project by the New Middle School Mauthausen Musical arrangement: Free Willy Event organised by: perspektive Mauthausen Saturday, 19th March 2016 Linz 19:00 Mass to the anniversary of the death of Marcel Pfarre Marcel Callo Callo Schörgenhubstr. 39 Marcel Callo was a Catholic youth worker and oppo- Upper Austria nent of National Socialism. He was beatified in 1987. Friday, 25th March 2016 Hinterbrühl 14:30 Memorial ceremony with stations of the cross Memorial site Johannesstrasse Lower Austria Saturday, 2nd April 2016 Oberwart 14:00 Symposium “The Holocaust was unfilmable” – At- Lisztgasse 12/OHO tempts to get close – Oberwart Burgenland Sunday, 3rd April 2016 Rechnitz 14:00 Memorial ceremony for all the victims of the con- Memorial struction of the “South Wall” Kreuzstadl Burgenland Monday, 4th April 2016 Neusiedl am See 11:00 Exhibition Opening – “Night and Fog” – Spanish in Handelsakademie Mauthausen – Burgenland against Spanish Fascism Burgenland Invited lecture: Erich HACKL Wednesday, 6th April 2016 Lenzing 18:30 Memorial event and wreath laying Memorial Memorial stone Pettighofen Upper Austria Speech: Former BH Dr. Peter SALINGER Film presentation: “Lampedusa in Winter” in the Lichtspielen Lenzing (in cooperation with the local council) Haid 19:00 Memorial event Stadtsaal "Going Nowhere” Memorial event for the death Upper Austria marches. Reading with Ines Bernt-Koppensteiner and Alex Schinko; Cooperation: MKÖ Ansfelden, Wi- der das Vergessen, Ansfelden Town Library, Treff- punkt mensch & arbeit Nettingsdorf Thursday, 7th April 2016 Chapel of the 19:30 Dr. Johann Gruber Memorial Service Teacher Training On the anniversary of his death on April 7th and the College of the Dio- repeal of the Nazi court judgment (together with Dr. Partner: Ministry of the Interior as well as following Federal States Vienna, Upper Austria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Steiermark, Tirol and Vorarlberg

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cese of Linz Manfed SCHEURER, Dr. Ludwig SCHWARZ SDB and Salesianumweg 3 Dr. Maximilian AICHERN OSB) Linz Music: Duo Seitenweg (Wilfried SCHARF, Albin Upper Austria WAID) Saturday, 9th April 2016 Peggau 16:30 Ecumenical Memorial ceremony at the former sub- Memorial site camp of Mauthausen in Peggau Styria With the curator Bernadette PFINGSTL (Evangelical Church), Pastoral Assistant Anton GSCHIER (Catholic Church), confirmation candidates Event hosted by the Peggau Evangelical Parish, the Deutschfeistritz RC Parish, ARGE Youth against Vio- lence and Racism and the Austrian Mauthausen Committee. Musical accompaniment: Fritz WINDISCH Liebenau 18:30 Memorial Event Anderseng. 32-34 Speeches: Dr. Rainer POSSERT, SMZ-Liebenau; Univ. Styria Prof. Helmut KONRAD, University of Graz; Mag. Joachim HAINZL, MKÖ; GR Mag. Andreas MOLNÁR i.V. BM NAGL, HR Dr. Heinz ANDERWALD, Member of the Austrian Jewish Community Graz South Parish 20:00 Memorial Concert with Paul GULDA Anton-Lippe-Platz Graz, Styria Tuesday, 12th April 2016 Simmering 14:00 Memorial event at the former sub-camp Vienna Haidgasse 22/ Saurer Werke Oriongasse Speeches: Harald TROCH (MP) und Gerald NETZL. Vienna The memorial service will be organised in cooperation with pupils from the Vienna vocational training school. Several honorary guests from the embassies as well as from victim organisations will be in attendance. Sunday, 17th April 2016 Bratislava, 7:45 - 16th Memorial trip to Engerau Petržalka 18:00 Registration until 11.4.2016 to Dr. Claudia Wolfsthal KURETSIDIS-HAIDER, Bad Dt.-Altenburg Monday, 18th April 2016 Wels 18:30 Remembrance of the death march of the Hungarian Jewish Memorial Jews Cemetery Opening Address: Johann REINDL-SCHWAIGHOFER Upper Austria (Councillor for Culture, Wels) Speech: Prof. Dr. Anton PELINKA (Political Sciences) In cooperation with the Evangelical Trombone Choir Wels, led by Martin KÖBERL 18th – 22nd April 2016 Linz Hermann Langbein Symposium 2016 AK Upper Austria For 34 years the “Hermann Langbein-Symposium” Upper Austria has been an important aspect for advanced training on the topic of the “Nazi period in Austria” Registration: [email protected]

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Thursday, 21st April 2016 Linz 19:00 Memorial ceremony for the camp Linz II, concept by Teacher training the Year 4 of the Adalbert Stifter Middle School college of the Linz Theme: "Encounters" Diocese Pupils from the Adalbert Stifter School will present a Linz/Chapel variety of contributions based on the encounters be- Salesianumweg 3 tween the past and present, with each other and Upper Austria with one’s self. Saturday, 23rd April 2016 Fürstenfeld 12:00 Memorial vigil by the K.Ö.St.V. Riegersburg (MKV) City park against (Neo-) Nazism and violent extremist groups Styria in Austria. Organiser: Fürstenfeld Middle School stu- dents and the fraternity “Riegersburg”. Speaker: Ge- rald L. Guschlbauer Tuesday, 26th April 2016 Ansfelden 8:00 Memorial Events “The death of a Jewish woman! Kremsbrücke - Local Nazi politics in Kremsbrücke in April 1945” Re- Upper Austria 11:00 membrance by the 4th abc class of the Ansfelden school. Wednesday, 27th April 2016 Ansfelden 18:00 Memorial ceremony AGAINST FORGETTING - "In- Kremsbrücke ternational Solidarity" – “because forgetting evil is to Gh. Stockinger allow it to happen again” Upper Austria Memorial ceremony in memory of those Jews mur- dered on the death marches from Mauthausen to Gunskirchen, Organiser: Platform “Wider das Vergessen“, MKÖ Ansfelden, Meeting point: mensch & arbeit Nettingsdorf, ÖGB LL Friday, 29th April 2016 Linz 10:00 Memorial event for the anniversary of the liberation Memorial site of the sub-camp Linz III Lunzerstraße 74 Upper Austria Vöcklabruck 10:30 Memorial event – together with the local grammar Memorial school. District sports hall Organised by the local grammar school, followed by Upper Austria the laying of wreath at the memorial. Salzburg City 11:00 Memorial event at the Memorial for Roma und Ignaz Rieder Kai 21 Sinti Salzburg During the Nazi regime the former racetrack was used to round up the Roma and Sinti and from there bring them to Maxglan. In the course of the dissolu- tion of the camp, 300 Roma and Sinti were deported to Auschwitz and the “Gypsy vagabond camp” in Lackenbach. Braunau 17:30 Memorial ceremony at the memorial stone Memorial stone in Opening address: Johannes WAIDBACHER (Mayor) Salzburg suburbs Speech: Andrej CILERDZIC (Bishop of the Serbian Or- Upper Austria thodox Church, Austrian, Swiss and Italian Diocese. Music: Braunau Democratic Choir Monday, 2nd May 2016 Redl-Zipf 18:00 Memorial event with wreath-laying at the memo- Memorial rial Partner: Ministry of the Interior as well as following Federal States Vienna, Upper Austria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Steiermark, Tirol and Vorarlberg

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Upper Austria Address: Mayor Josef SIX Play in the church – „Eichmann“ with Franz FROSCHAUER (entrance: VVK 14,--, AK 16,--) Wednesday, 4th May 2016 Floridsdorf 10:00 Memorial event District Museum During the Nazi period there were several sub- Vienna camps of Mauthausen that were within the modern city’s borders, one of which was the sub-camp Flo- ridsdorf. Opening by representatives of the district, lecture by Dr. Gerhard BAUMGARTNER and laying of a wreath. Gleisdorf 10:00 Memorial event Memorial Theme: Fleeing and Expulsion: Yesterday and Today Town Hall Square Memorial Address: Jakob BROSSMANN (Director of Styria the film “Lampedusa in Winter“), with Gabriella GOLDMANN (survivor) in attendance and in cooperation with the pupils of the schools of Gleisdorf and refugees currently living in the town. Organised by: The organisation "Zukunft braucht Er- innerung" St. Aegyd 18:30 Memorial ceremony Neuwalde The ceremony has been developed by the pupils of Kulturstadel the new middle school on St. Aegyd am Neuwald ac- Memorial site cording to this year’s motto “international solidar- Lower Austria ity”. The school choir with provide the musical accompaniment. Elfriede AWADALLA will be a guest speaker (to be confirmed, followed by the traditional silent proces- sion to the memorial site. Thursday, 5th May 2016 Neumarkt 19:00 Memorial event with a reading as part of the series Schloss Lind “Remembered Wounds” Styria Robert SCHINDEL reads from his novel “Der Kalte“ Music: SINCE WE MET Special exhibition 2016 “Self and Other”. The exhibition features objects that are presented in the context of the Lind Castle, the town of Neumarkt and the region to highlight the political and social background of the events of National Socialism. Friday, 6th May 2016 Morzinplatz 10:30 Cermonial Wreath-laying at the memorial for the Memorial Victims of the Gestapo at Morzinplatz Vienna Organisers: The Green Party Vienna and the Vien- nese Jewish Community.

Saturday, 7th May 2016 Greifenburg 17:00 Memorial ceremony Train sta- At the Memorial for the victims of Nazism in Oberen tion/Memorial Drautal Carinthia Opening addresses: Mayor Josef BRANDNER, Peter PIRKER (verein aegide). Memorial speech: Dr. Peter KAISER. Staged reading by school pupils Further Information: www.aegide.at

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Sunday, 8th May 2016 Gallneukirchen 18:30 Memorial ceremony Memorial Theme: “Solidarity for people who are fleeing” for Peace Word collage on the topic of “Fleeing to Austria” Upper Austria Speech: Richard WALL Local youth groups have acted as co-organisers Heldenplatz 19:30 Festival of Joy Vienna Vienna’s Heldenplatz will once more become a space of commemoration and joy on the 71st anniversary of liberation from the Nazi regime with a free concert of the Wiener Symphoniker. The concert will also feature speeches from several speakers, including Chair of the Austrian Mauthausen Committee Willi Mernyi and survivor Daniel Chanoch. Katharina Stemberger will act as presenter. Monday, 9th May 2016 Wiener Neustadt 11:00 Memorial event Serbenhalle Speakers: Karin RENNER (representative of the local Lower Austria council), Tanja WINDBÜCHLER-SOUSCHILL (MP) Musik: Pupils from the BORG-Wiener Neustadt Led by Anton STRAKA Tuesday, 10th May 2016 Attnang Puchheim Memorial ceremony at the railway station Train station 18:30 memorial Phönix Saal 19:00 Memorial event Upper Austria Presentation: Karl Markovics Wednesday, 11th May 2016 Memorial of 17:00 Memorial for the victims of National Socialist Vio- Names lence Widmanngasse Organiser: Erinnern Villach Villach Carinthia Museum Arbeits- 19:00 Opening of the exhibition “Forced labour under Na- welt tional Socialism”. Steyr An exhibition by the Foundation for the Buchenwald Upper Austria and Mittelbau-Dora memorial sites Thursday, 12th May 2016 St. Georgen/Gusen Guided walk through the rock salt mine shaft The walk will last around two hours, registration is recommended as only a limited number of spaces are available. Information is available online at www.mauthausen-memorial.at Friday, 13th May 2016 Amstetten 10:00 Memorial event Eisenreichdornach Speeches: Ulrike KÖNIGSBERGER-LUDWIG, Deputy Lower Austria Mayor and MP, Willy PYPEN, President Amicale de Mauthausen Belgium and representative of the Ini- tiativ Amstetten. Cultural and musical programme by the Amstetten schools (Ostarrichi-Gymnasium, HAK, HLW, BAKIP, Landesberufsschule). Ecumenical prayer and laying of a wreath. Eisenreichdornach 10:30 Liberation Commemoration Amstetten Participating schools: Ostarrichigymnasium, HAK Partner: Ministry of the Interior as well as following Federal States Vienna, Upper Austria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Steiermark, Tirol and Vorarlberg

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Lower Austria Amstetten, HLW Amstetten, Landesberufsschule Amstetten, BAKIP Amstetten Melk 10:30 Liberation commemoration Memorial site Lower Austria Spital am Pyhrn 16:30 Memorial ceremony for the children who died in the Church home for children from foreign races. St. Leonhard Upper Austria New date! 17:00 Memorial event St. Valentin Speaker: Anton Pelinka Anna-Strasser-Platz Lower Austria Saturday, 14th May 2016 Ebensee 10:30 Liberation commemoration: 71st anniversary of the Memorial site liberation of Ebensee Concentration Camp Upper Austria Addresses by survivors Memorial speech: Katharina STEMBERGER Gunskirchen 10:30 Liberation commemoration Cemetery of the Speakers: Christine HAIDEN (President of the concentration Presseclubs, Upper Austria), Daniel CHANOCH (Sur- camp viver), György FRISCH (President of the Hungrian Upper Austria Jewish Community), Jehuda BACON (artist, survivor) Gusen 17:00 Liberation commemoration "international solidar- Memorial site ity" Upper Austria Invited Guest: Heinz PATZELT (Secretary General of Amnesty International Austria) Sunday, 15th May 2016 Memorial plaque 08:45 Memorial service for Leopold Figl Mauthausen Upper Austria Memorial for 9:00 Memorial events with Wreath laying at the Memo- Roma and Sinti rial for Roma and Sinti by representatives of the Aus- Mauthausen trian and international Roma and Sinti organisations. Upper Austria Memorial plaque 12:00 The memorial service for Richard Bernaschek and Mauthausen other Social Democrat freedom fighters, victims of Upper Austria fascism and active anti-fascists will take place after the international memorial event at the Richard Bernaschek memorial, with a speech by Alois STÖGER, Federal Minister for Work, Social and Con- sumer Matters. Mauthausen 13:00 Presentation of the Memorial Book Visitor centre with Federal Minister Johanna MIKL-LEITNER Memorial Guided tour in several languages lasting around an Upper Austria hour. Informations: www.mauthausen-memorial.at Ried/Rdm. 16:00 Memorial event at the Memorial stone for the Memorial stone “Mühlviertal Manhunt” Upper Austria Speeches: Sabine SCHATZ, Mayor Ernst RABL, the Socialist Youth, Federation of Social Democratic Freedom Fighters, Mauthausen Committee East Memorial Speech: KO LAbg. Christian MAKOR Music: Jenny MENDL, Mauthausen Committee East Partner: Ministry of the Interior as well as following Federal States Vienna, Upper Austria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Steiermark, Tirol and Vorarlberg

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Monday, 16th May 2016 Steyr 17:30 Liberation commemoration Concentration Welcoming address: Mag. Karl RAMSMAIER camp Memorial (MK-Steyr) Haagerstraße Memorial speech: Erich HACKL (Author) Upper Austria Music, Wreath-laying - Minute of silence In the event of bad weather, the event will be held at the Münichholz Fire Station. Friday, 20th May 2016 New date! Weyer-Dipoldsau 16:00 Memorial ceremony Memorial site Drama presentation by the Cultural organisa- Upper Austria tion FRIKULUM on the topic of “international solidarity” with particular regards to the refugee situation. Sunday, 29 th May 2016 Strasshof 11:30h Memorial ceremony Memorial (Helmahof-Str.) Lower Austria Thursday, 9 th June 2016 Loiblpass 17:00 Opening exhibition of sculptures by Seiji Kimoto Tržiški muzej Seiji Kimoto creates sculptures dedicated to the vic- Slowenien tims of concentration camps. He made two special sculptures one is dedicated to KZ Ljubelj south and the other to KZ Ljubelj north. Saturday, 11th June 2016 Loiblpass 9:00 Memorial event: Loibl Nord Memorial sites Memorial address: Milan KUCAN, First president of Carinthia the independent Slovenia (1991-2002) Slovenia The voice of witnesses: Dušan STEFANCIC, Slovenian resistance movement, former concentration camp prisoner, liberated from Mauthausen/Gusen The voice of the youth: Maximilian HOPFGARTNER Austrian Gedenkdienst, memorial service abroad Musical accompaniment: Women’s choir Rož, St. Ja- kob im Rosental/Ženski pevski zbor Rož, Šentjakob v Rožu 11:00 Memorial event: Loibl Süd

Saturday, 18th June 2016 New date! Bretstein 11:00 Memorial ceremony with the theme of “interna- Camp Memorial tional solidarity” site Memorial speech: Friedo HÜTTER (Kleine Zei- Styria tung, Graz) Statements of refugees Tuesday, 21st June 2016 Wartberg o.d. Aist 19:00 Prayer for Peace and commemoration of the Memorial victims of the Mühlviertel Kalvarienberg The memorial for the “Mühlviertel Manhunt” Upper Austria was unveiled in November 2015 as a project of the local community. Friday, 24th June 2016 Präbichl 09:45 10th March of Life Memorial Programme: March of Life via the Almshouses

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Styria to the memorial, roughly a half an hour walking time. Memorial service at about 11am at the memorial. Sunday, 26th June 2016 Bad Eisenkappel 14:00 Memorial ceremony at Peršmanhof Železna Kapla The mountain farm of the Carinthian-Slovene Sa- Koprein Petzen 3 dovnik family was, from 1942, an important base for Peršmanhof the resistance movement. Shortly before the end of Carinthia the war, in April 25th 1945, the families Sadvonik and Kogoj paid for their support of the resistance with the lives of 11 family members. The SS and the 13th Police Regiment carried out a massacre there in the dying days of the war that is written deep into the collective memories of the Carinthian Slovenes as a symbol of their suffering. Nobody was ever brought to justice for the crimes. Saturday, 2nd July 2016 Goldegg 18:00 Memorial ceremony and wreath laying at the Me- Memorial stone morial stone for the Wehrmacht deserters from Salzburg Goldegg Autumn 2016 Guntramsdorf/ Vi- n.o. Memorial event ennaer Neudorf Organiser: (Ge)DenkVerein sub-camp Guntrams- Former camp dorf/Wiener Neudorf Lower Austria Hirtenberg n.o. Memorial Event Gemeindesaal Lower Austria Saturday, 1st October 2016 Alkoven 11:00 Memorial ceremony Schloss Hartheim Annual memorial service for the victims of Nazi Memorial site euthanasia in the education and memorial centre Upper Austria Schloss Hartheim Friday, 7th October 2016 Ternberg 18:30 Memorial ceremony Pfarrbaracke Organiser: Catholic Youth, Upper Austria Spielfeldstraße 1 Co-organiser: The local council, the parish, Ternberg Upper Austria Musikverein and the Red Cross Ternberg. Music: Brass ensemble of the Ternberg Musikverein 14 th – 16 th October 2016 Loiblpass MKÖ-Field Excursion with the theme of “international Austria solidarity” Slowenia Saturday, 15th October 2016 Sankt Pantaleon 18:00 Memorial ceremony Memorial Weyer (Moosachstrasse) Upper Austria Thursday, 27th October 2016 Linz/Neue Heimat 18:30 Memorial service for the victims of the Nazi Memorial, junction “Work/rededucation” camp Schörgenhub with the of Dailer- motto “Civil Courage: Yesterday – today - tomor- /Siemensstr. row”. Upper Austria Partner: Ministry of the Interior as well as following Federal States Vienna, Upper Austria, Carinthia, Salzburg, Steiermark, Tirol and Vorarlberg

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Tuesday, 1st November 2016 Hinterbrühl 18:00 Memorial ceremony for All Saints’ Day Memorial site Arranged by the participants Johannesstrasse Lower Austria Wednesday, 2nd Nov. 2016 Pichl bei Wels 19:00 Memorial ceremony Parish Church Parish church: Mass for All Souls’ Day Upper Austria Followed by a commemoration at the cemetery Wednesday, 9th Nov. 2016 Landstraße 18:00 Vigil and rally at the memorial stone at the former Platz der Opfer Aspang train station der Deportation Leon Zelman Park Vienna Thursday, 10th Nov. 2016 Evangelical Church 19:00 Commemoration of the November Progrom 1938 Villach city park Organiser: Erinnern Villach Carinthia Saturday, 19th Nov. 2016 Lackenbach 11:00 Memorial event Memorial site At the memorial for Roma und Sinti. Burgenland Saturday, 10th December 2016 Aflenz 18:00 Memorial ceremony on Human Rights Day, with Memorial site, ar- wreath-laying maments cave Representatives of the local council of Wagna, the Styria Executive and the MKÖ North and other organisations will be in attendance Saturday, 31st December 2016 Hinterbrühl 17:00 Memorial ceremony for the change of years Memorial site Johannesstrasse Lower Austria

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