Yesterday, at the invitation of the Second President of the National Council, Peter Haubner, a special event took place in Parliament: the Café Centropa – Jewish Senior Citizens' Club, a long-standing meeting place for Holocaust survivors, came together for a get-together at the Austrian seat of …
On Friday, 27 February 2026, a workshop was held in Parliament to prepare for the creative competition for the planned memorial to the victims of National Socialism from the Roma and Sinti communities.
On 19 February 2026, Elfriede Hendell, née Strauber, passed away in New York at the age of 93. Her life story is exemplary of the fate of many Austrian Jews who were expelled after 1938 and of a generation-spanning rapprochement with Austria.