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Names of 64,000 Shoah Victims Engraved at Memorial Inaugurated in Vienna
(Jewish News-UK) Stephen Oryszczuk - Austrian and European Jewish leaders inaugurated a new Shoah Wall of Names in Vienna on Nov. 9 to mark the 83rd anniversary of Kristallnacht. The spherical memorial is engraved with the names of 64,440 Austrian Jewish victims of the Nazis and was opened by Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg. Vienna Jewish community leader Oskar Deutsch said the names on the wall "give the relatives of Shoah victims a place to commemorate their family's individual fate in a central and public square in Austria's capital [and] makes clear that the Shoah is nothing anonymous, nothing abstract."