| Friday, 8. May 2015 |
| |
Linz
Lunzerstraße 74
Upper Austria |
10.00am |
Memorial Event at the Linz III concentration
camp (the former Hermann Göring Works). |
|
Floridsdorf
Bezirksmuseum
Vienna |
10.00am |
Memorial Event
Speaker: District Mayor Georg PAPAI and the
Scientific Head of the DÖW Mag. Dr. Gerhard
BAUMGARTNER. |
|
Hallein
Former Eugen
Grill-Werke
Davisstraße 7
Hallein |
2.00pm |
Memorial event at the former sub-camp of
Dachau in Hallein. With speeches by Local
Parliament Member Dr. Heinrich
SCHELLHORN, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter
GSTETTNER, Mag. Wolfgang
WINTERSTELLER, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ernst
BERGER, Dr. Michael KURZ and relatives of
Agnes Primocic and Fritz Mergen. Organised
by the Deputy Mayor of Hallein Walter
RESCHREITER.
1:30pm: wreath laying at the concentration
camp memorial, gateway of the company
Deisl-Beton, Wiestal Landesstr. 34 |
|
Spital am Pyhrn
Cemetery
Upper Austria |
5.00pm |
Memorial Event for the children of forced
labourers in the former Foreign Childrens'
Home Lindenhof. |
|
Ebensee
Löwengang
Alte
Traunstraße |
6.00pm |
Stations of Memory |
|
Ebensee
Gedenkstollen
Upper Austria |
8.00pm |
Song Cycle with dance "The Divan of Mozes
Ibn-Esra" by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Direction: Maria STEINKOGLER |
|
St.
Georgen/Gusen
Parish Church
Upper Austria |
7.00pm |
Memorial and Mass of Thanks in
remembrance of the mass given following the
liberation on 5th May 1945. |
| Saturday, 9. May 2015 |
|
Gunskirchen
former
concentration
camp cemetery
Upper Austria
|
10:30am |
Liberation Commemoration
Welcome: Josef STURMAIR, Mayor of
Gunskirchen
Speaker: Hofrat Marko FEINGOLD, President
of the IKG Salzburg, and Daniel CHANOCH,
Survivor of Gunskirchen concentration camp.
Closing Remarks: Dr. Robert EITER, Board
Member of the MKÖ
In cooperation with the Gunskirchen School,
the County Music school Gunskirchen and the
Singkreis Gunskirchen.
In the event of bad weather, the
commemoration will be held in the events
centre Gunskirchen (Raiffeisenplatz 2). |
|
Ebensee
Memorial
Upper Austria |
10:30am |
Liberation Commemoration
Speeches: Wanda NORDLIE (Nurse with the
139th US Evacuation Hospital, cared for
survivors from Ebensee), Zvi
SCHMIDMAYER (Survivor of Auschwitz,
Mauthausen, Ebensee), Shimon SHAHAR (Son
of the survivor Zvi Schmidmayer), Andrew
STERNBERG (survivor of Auschwitz,
Mauthausen, Melk, Ebensee), Silvia
DINHOF-CUETO (daughter of an Ebensee
survivor).
Memorial speech: Michael KÖHLMEIER,
Author |
|
Mauthausen
Vormarktstraße
61
Upper Austria |
2.00pm |
Unveiling of a commemorative plaque for
Anna Pointner, who was brave enough to resist
fascism and supported the Spanish
concentration camp prisoners.
Thoughts on the commemoration of Anna
Pointner: Walter HOFSTÄTTER (Chair of
perspektive mauthausen), Mayor Thomas
PUNKENHOFER, Representative of the
Spanish and activists of perspektive
mauthausen.
Unveiling by apprentices from VOEST Alpine
Linz.
Music: Juan Francisco Ortiz (concert guitarist
and son of the Spanish Mauthausen survivor
Francisco Ortiz Torres). |
|
Mauthausen
Concentration
camp Memorial
In front of
Barracks 1
Upper Austria |
3.30pm |
Feminist anti-fascist Women's
Commemoration
In remembrance of the persecution, murder and
the resistance of the Women, lesbians and
young girls in the Nazi period and the women
and children who were brought to Mauthausen
Concentration camp from Ravensbrück and
forced to work as prostitutes. |
|
Gusen/Langenstein
Memorial
Gusen
Upper Austria |
5.00pm |
Liberation Commemoration on the topic of
"Forced labour in the quarry and the armaments
industry”.
Speeches: former prisoners |
|
Train station
Greifenburg
Memorial für
die NS-Opfer im Oberen Drautal/Carinthia |
5.00pm |
Memorial Event for the victims in Oberen
Drautal.
Speeches by:
Katja STURM-SCHNABL, Head of the
Carinthian Partisan organisation, Governor
Peter KAISER (invited) and a reading by local
schoolchildren. The Memorial Event has been
organised by the organisations "aegide" and
"kuland" |
|
St. Valentin
Anna
Strasser-Platz
Lower Austria |
5.00pm |
Memorial Event and unveiling of a memorial
stone
As part of the event an expansion of the
memorial will be unveiled with nine new
memorial stones for victims of Hartheim and a
steel sculpture.
Speech:
Rudolf HUNDSTORFER, Minister for Labor,
Social Affairs and Consumer Rights
Representative of the education and memorial
centre at Schloss Hartheim
Contributions by: IMS Langenhart
Music: Members of the city band |
|
Neumarkt
Schloss Lind
Styria |
7.00pm |
Memorial and Opening event as part of the
special exhibition "The Self and the Other"
which looks at questions of identity and origin.
Reading: in cooperation with the Austrian
Mauthausen Committee, devised by Uli
VONBANK-SCHEDLER, Werner
KOROSCHITZ and Andreas STAUDINGER.
Music: Gypsy duo KRANZELBINDER |
|
Ebensee
Gedenkstollen |
8.00pm |
Classical Concert by the Musikfreunde
Ebensee, conducted by Fritz NEUBÖCK |
|
Cinema
Ebensee
Upper Austria |
8.00pm |
Reading: René FREUND reads from his book
"My Father, the Deserter". |
| Sunday, 10. May 2015 |
|
Ried/Riedmark
Gedenkstein
Upper Austria |
4.00pm |
Memorial Event
Opening remarks: Mayor Ernst RABL, SJ
OÖ, Organisation for Social Democrat Freedom
Fighters, German Mauthausen Committee East,
Amicale de Mauthausen (F).
Memorial Keynote: Willi MERNYI, Chair
MKÖ
Musical Accompaniment: German
Mauthausen Committee East |
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