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The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin presents the year 1938 through the eyes of Jews, whose personal documents detail their experiences and the hardships they suffered as well as the growing tensions in Europe and diminishing hope for Jews in Germany and Austria.

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23

SATURDAY

The Prater amusement park

Site of humiliation and torture

Vienna

This advertising brochure shows the Prater, a large public garden and popular amusement park in Vienna’s central 2nd district, in the 1930s. Here, on Saturday, April 23, hundreds of Viennese Jews were rounded up and subjected to beatings and maltreatment in front of jeering onlookers. Some were forced to eat grass. Jews of both sexes, regardless of age and health, were made to run in circles until they collapsed. Many of those thus humiliated suffered heart attacks, some died.


TAGS: ADVERTISEMENT, ANSCHLUSS, ANTISEMITISM, APRIL 23, PUBLIC SPHERE, VIENNA, VIOLENCE

SOURCE

Institution:

North Carolina State University

Collection:

Booklet on the Riesenrad at the Prater in Vienna, Austria, circa 1937.

 

on the days before

April 22
Brain drain
April 21
A Jewish cinema institute?
April 20
Safe for now

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