#NeverForget

Austria Wien commemorates the victims of the November pogroms that took place on the night of November 9-10, 1938.

The year 1938 marks the beginning of the systematic oppression and extermination of numerous Jews. The November pogroms claimed hundreds of lives and resulted in the destruction of numerous Jewish institutions.

They also almost meant the end of Austria Wien, whose eight-member board of directors had consisted entirely of people of Jewish faith until the Anschluss, before they were expelled, imprisoned or murdered. The same fate also befell numerous supporters of the Violets.