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The Vienna City Temple was the only one that was not destroyed during the night of the pogrom. The President of the National Council Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP), Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler (Greens), Chancellor Minister Karoline Edtstadler (ÖVP) and the President of the Jewish community, Oskar Deutsch, left four bouquets of white roses.
The commemoration lasted only a few minutes, the flowers were placed in front of the monument to the victims of the Austrian Shoah. Later, politicians took a look at the synagogue, the only one that was not destroyed during the night of the pogrom. The President of the National Council, Sobotka, laid a wreath along with Deutsch that morning at Judenplatz.
In front of the synagogue, which was strictly guarded as always, passersby continued to gather in front of a sea of candlelight commemorating the victims on the night of terror exactly a week ago. The first of four people was killed by an Islamist perpetrator directly in front of the synagogue last Monday.
“He stabs me every time I pass by,” Deutsch said in an interview with the APA. But he’s also happy that so many people visit the crime scene to commemorate the dead. After the bloody terrorist attack, it is important as a society to stand together and not be discouraged. Unfortunately, the Jewish community in particular is used to attack and hostility. His vision for the future is that one day Jewish institutions will no longer have to be policed.
The November pogroms are among the darkest chapters in Austrian history. 82 years ago, by order of the National Socialist regime, Jewish citizens and their shops, prayer rooms and synagogues were attacked and destroyed. 400 people died that same night.
