Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna in 1938

Following the National Socialist regime’s accession to power in 1938, more than 2,700 mostly Jewish members of the University of Vienna were dismissed for “racial” and/or “political” reasons and subsequently displaced and/or murdered. Since 2009, more than 70 years after the so-called “Anschluss”, the University of Vienna commemorates this injustice and is aware of its shared responsibility for this inconceivable atrocity perpetrated against its members. The names of the dismissed, displaced and disenfranchised women and men are recorded for the first time in the Memorial Book. The victims of National Socialism from this institution, including those from the Medical Faculty that has since become independent, thus become part of the university’s collective memory.