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October 28, 2022, 11:43 am
400 musical works banned by the Nazis to be published
The works include more than 300 songs, 100 chamber music works, 50 orchestral works, and numerous film scores
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Beth Schlesinger (née Alexander) with her two children
February 4, 2022, 3:50 pm
Head of Austrian community offers help to UK mum’s bid to reunite with twins
Oskar Deutsch said he'd support Beth Alexander, who is fighting to take part in the barmitzvah of her sons, after they were separated from her by an Austrian court ruling
By Jenni Frazer
Vienna, Austria. People commemorate victims at Shoah Wall of Names Memorial in Vienna, Austria, on Nov. 9, 2021. Shoah Wall of Names Memorial was inaugurated at Ostarrichi Park in Vienna on Tuesday. The new memorial commemorates more than 64,000 Jews from Austria who were murdered or perished during the Nazi era. Credit: Guo Chen/Xinhua/Alamy Live News
November 11, 2021, 3:26 pm
Wall of Names: 64,000 Shoah victims engraved at memorial inaugurated in Vienna
Austrian and Jewish leaders opened a monument honouring Jews murdered by the Nazis, after five-volume academic study on the history of antisemitism presented
By Stephen Oryszczuk
View from the north tower of St. Stephen's Cathedral over Vienna. (Wikipedia/Author: Gryffindor/GNU Free Documentation License/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode)
March 21, 2021, 4:10 pm
Vienna threatens libel suit against Rothschild descendant over Nazi claim
City may sue an American descendant of the family for accusing the municipality of extending Nazi policies of expropriation
By JTA
The painting "Rosebushes under the Trees" by Gustav Klimt hangs at the Musée d'Orsay museum in Paris, March 15, 2021. (Courtesy of the French Culture Ministry) via JTA
March 21, 2021, 3:22 pm
French government to return Klimt painting looted from Austrian Jew in 1938
Painting, 'Rosebushes under the Trees', will be given back to the family of Nora Stiasny, who was forced to sell it in August 1938
By JTA
Covid-19 vaccine administered through an injection
January 9, 2021, 6:56 pm
Austrian community leader apologises for wrongly administered Covid vaccines
Oskar Deutsch said it was a “mistake” to have included non-priority individuals in the jabs given last month
By JTA
Police officers search a street in Vienna, capital of Austria, Nov. 2, 2020, after two civillians were killed in early November during a terror attack (Photo by Georges Schneider/Xinhua)
November 29, 2020, 10:04 am
Woman threatens rabbi with a knife on street in Vienna and steals his kippah
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said: 'We must fight antisemitism and do everything we can to make Jewish life safe here in Austria. Europe without Jews is no longer Europe'
By JTA
Geoffrey Hoguet (L), a descendent of the Rothschild family, is interviewed on February 25, 2020 (Screen grab/YouTube via Times of Israel)
November 16, 2020, 3:15 pm
Rothschild descendant wins Vienna legal battle over £100m trust seized by Nazis
Geoffrey Hoguet successful in getting control of foundation while accusing Austrian authorities of 'hollowing it out' by selling assets at well under market value
By Jewish News Reporter
Screenshot from video
November 3, 2020, 4:23 pm
Video shows two men stealing trousers from victim they call ‘Jew’ in Vienna
Clip which surfaced online shows man being ordered to take off his clothes, with one perpetrator shouting: 'It’s that easy with you Jews' as he runs off
By JTA
A shot from a video of the shooting. (Screen shot via JTA)
From the WebNovember 2, 2020, 9:26 pm
At least one reported dead as shots fired in Vienna near multiple synagogues
Fifty shots in the Austrian capital with police officers and passers-by reported as being hit
By JTA
Dame Stephanie Shirley, who was born in Austria, next to the iconic kinder statue
September 4, 2020, 3:14 pm
Jews of Austrian descent applying for citizenship
Tens of thousands of descendants are now eligible to apply after lawmakers in Vienna opted to ease current rules, with the aim of righting an historic wrong.
By Jewish News Reporter
Austria's chancellor Sebastian Kurz
August 6, 2020, 2:54 pm
Austria will allow descendants of Holocaust victims to receive citizenship
Tens of thousands of Israelis will now be eligible for Austrian citizenship under the new rule - and the application process is free
By JTA
An old Jewish headstone in a cemetery
July 11, 2020, 3:19 pm
Jewish gravestones found under Austrian castle
The director of the Austrian Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt said the stones dated from 1622 to 1669 and represented a 'sensational find'
By Jewish News Reporter
Aerial view of Graz (Wikipedia/Author: Marek Ślusarczyk (Tupungato) Photo gallery/https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode / Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0))
June 23, 2020, 9:01 am
Austria begins building new Holocaust memorial to Jews killed by the Nazis
Memorial being erected in Vienna's central Ostarrichi Park and will be engraved with the names of the 64,000 Austrian victims who have been identified as being killed by the Nazis
By Jewish News Reporter
Austria's chancellor Sebastian Kurz
June 2, 2020, 12:33 pm
Austrian motion seeks to target Hezbollah and its supporters
Authorities urged to 'take appropriate and effective measures to act decisively against the terrorist and criminal activities of Hezbollah and its supporters in Austria'
By Jewish News Reporter
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