National Socialism

"Pass auf oder du kommst nach Farge" - mit diesem Satz wurde im Zweiten Weltkrieg Arbeitern in den Bremer Betrieben gedroht. Gemeint war das Arbeitserziehungslager in Bremen-Farge, das unter der Leitung der Geheimen Staatspolizei (Gestapo) stand. Sogenannte Bummelanten und Arbeitsverweigerer sollten hier "erzogen" werden. Im Laufe des Krieges wurden immer mehr Zwangsarbeiter aus den von der Wehrmacht besetzten Gebieten in Farge inhaftiert. (...) In den Beiträgen der Studierenden zu der 15. szenischen Lesung der Reihe "Aus den Akten auf die Bühne" kommen Häftlinge, Profiteure und Täter zu Wort und geben einen Einblick in ein bisher wenig bekanntes Kapitel der Bremer Geschichte (...).

This book focuses on the experiences of Vienna’s Jewish population between the years 1938 and 1945. It makes the persecution, expulsion, and murder of Jewish Austrians as a result of National Socialist persecution measures visible in the physical cityscape, thereby closing a major gap in Holocaust history and in the general history of Vienna.
Until 1938, Vienna was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe.
During the Holocaust, it became a testing ground for the radicalization of Nazi anti-Jewish policies. This book maps the topography of Nazi persecution as well as sites of Jewish agency and survival, thereby visualizing the destruction of Jewish Vienna as it unfolded in the cityscape. It reveals Vienna as a city contaminated by the Shoah.
The historic events that unfolded between 1938 and 1945 were connected to specific
sites and spaces: So, for example, Vienna’s famous Ringstraße became a paradigmatic site for the exclusion of Jews from professional life as well as for material expropriation
(“Aryanization”). The Mariahilfer Straße and West Station were initially sites of escape but also places connected to early deportations to the concentration camps of Dachau and
Buchenwald. Meanwhile, the Inner City became the locus of Jewish and non-Jewish aid
agencies struggling to assist Vienna’s persecuted Jews in increasingly dire circumstances. These and other sites are explored in detail across fifteen thematic chapters in the book, beginning with the “Anschluss” Pogrom and mass emigration in 1938/39, covering the mass deportations to concentration and extermination sites in 1941/42, and closing with the survival of a small remnant of the Jewish population through to 1945. The events are presented both chronologically and thematically through a variety of documents, narrative sources, photographs, and objects, thereby disseminating this novel research to a broad audience.