The Austrian Service Abroad is a non-profit organization founded by
Andreas Hörtnagl
Andreas Hörtnagl (born 28 November 1942) is an Austrian politician.
Born in Matrei am Brenner, Hörtnagl was mayor of Gries am Brenner from 1980 to 1992.
He became well-known because of the conflict with his predecessor Jakob Strickner, who ...
,
Andreas Maislinger
Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian historian and political scientist and founder and chairman of the Austrian Service Abroad, including the Gedenkdienst, the Austrian Social Service a ...
and
Michael Prochazka in 1998, which sends young Austrians to work in partner institutions worldwide serving Holocaust commemoration in form of the
Gedenkdienst
Gedenkdienst is the concept of facing and taking responsibility for the darkest chapters of one's own country's history while ideally being financially supported by one's own country's government to do so. Founded in Austria in 1992 by Andreas Ma ...
, supporting vulnerable social groups and sustainability initiatives in form of the
Austrian Social Service
The Austrian Social Service (''Österreichischer Sozialdienst'') is part of the Austrian Service Abroad founded by Dr. Andreas Maislinger in 1998. It offers the possibility to substitute the compulsory military service in Austria with a 10-months s ...
and realizing projects of peace within the framework of the
Austrian Peace Service. Its services aim at the permanence of life on earth. The Austrian Service Abroad carries and promotes the idea of the
House of Responsibility
The House of Responsibility (HRB) in Braunau am Inn is the idea of establishing an international meeting place and a place of learning in the birth house of Adolf Hitler. People from all countries, backgrounds, religions and cultures should meet in ...
for the birthplace of
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then ...
in
Braunau am Inn
Braunau am Inn (; German for "Braunau on the Inn") is a town in Upper Austria on the border with Germany. It is known for being the birthplace of Adolf Hitler.
Geography
The town is on the lower river Inn below its confluence with the Salzach, ...
. The Austrian Service Abroad is the issuer of the annually conferred
Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA) was founded by the Austrian Service Abroad in 2006.
Meaning
The prize is annually conferred to a person, a group of individuals or an institution, which has shown special endeavors for the memory ...
. The program is funded by the Austrian government.
Origin
The Austrian Service Abroad has its origin in the acknowledgement of the Austrian government, in particular by chancellor
Franz Vranitzky in 1991, regarding the Austrian people's share of responsibility for the crimes committed by
National Socialism
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Naz ...
during
WWII
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
. The Austrian Service Abroad is an outflow of this recognition. The initiative initially started in form of the
Gedenkdienst
Gedenkdienst is the concept of facing and taking responsibility for the darkest chapters of one's own country's history while ideally being financially supported by one's own country's government to do so. Founded in Austria in 1992 by Andreas Ma ...
in 1992. In 1998 the organization Austrian Service Abroad was founded, adding the
Austrian Social Service
The Austrian Social Service (''Österreichischer Sozialdienst'') is part of the Austrian Service Abroad founded by Dr. Andreas Maislinger in 1998. It offers the possibility to substitute the compulsory military service in Austria with a 10-months s ...
and the
Austrian Peace Service.
General information
The organisation provides young male Austrians a government funded alternative to the compulsory military service by sending them to institutions of Holocaust commemoration, social service or peace promotion for a time period of at least 10 months. In addition, it also provides volunteers (male & female) a platform to work in its partner institutions without age limitations for 6 to 12 months, while being financially supported by the Austrian government for their work abroad.
Before being sent out as Austrian Servants Abroad the candidates undergo a preparation period (typically 1,5 years) during which they are educated on the subject-matter relevant to their place of assignment. In addition, they are also being trained with professional skills via contributing to the work-flow of the organization.
Once a year the president of Austria and the Austrian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs invite all Austrian Servants Abroad of the year before departure for a reception at the
Hofburg and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs respectively. The Austrian Servants Abroad are commonly referred to as "little ambassadors of Austria".
The Austrian Service Abroad is headquartered in
Innsbruck and has an office in
Vienna. In addition, upcoming Austrian Servants Abroad physically meet monthly in the capital of each of the 9 federal states of Austria.
The Austrian Service Abroad is non-confessional and non-partisan.
The Austrian Service Abroad cooperates with the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The servants abroad are obliged to cooperate with the Austrian embassy in their respective host country.
Examples of partner institutions / organizations are the
Auschwitz Jewish Center
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It c ...
in Oświęcim, Poland,
Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...
in Jerusalem, Israel, the
Simon Wiesenthal Centre
The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) is a Jewish human rights organization established in 1977 by Rabbi Marvin Hier. The center is known for Holocaust research and remembrance, hunting Nazi war criminals, combating anti-Semitism, tolerance educa ...
in Los Angeles and the
World Jewish Congress
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations. According to its mission statement, the World Jewish Congress' main purpose is to act as ...
in New York, United States, the
Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai
The Center for Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS, ) was established in 1988. It is a department of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Under the leadership of Dean Professor Pan Guang CJSS has become the most influential research institute in C ...
in Shanghai, China, the
Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center
The Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center was founded in 1992 in Moscow and has since then been working on awareness raising of the Holocaust in the Russian society. It is the only non-governmental organization in the Russian Federation ...
in Moscow, Russia, the
Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne, Australia, th
Tom Lantos Institutein Budapest, Hungary, th
Ashraya Initiative for Childrenin Pune, India an
A chance for childrenin Zigoti, Uganda.
The Austrian Service Abroad is also a partner of th
Israeli Volunteer Associationpartnering on the initiativ
Understanding Israelin conjunction with the Austrian Ministry of Social Affairs.
Originally named 'Association for Services Abroad' it was renamed to Austrian Service Abroad in 2006. Since 2001
Michael Prochazka is part of its managing committee.
Vision Statement
A peaceful and socially humane world rooted in responsibility derived from the lessons of history.
Mission Statement
Educating young people on the subjects of ''memoria'' (remembrance), ''misericordia'' (mercy) and ''pax'' (peace), derived from and aimed at ''responsibility'', and sending them to serve at worldwide partner institutions remembering the crimes of Nazism and commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, supporting vulnerable social groups and realizing projects of peace, while being financially supported by their government.
Legal Framework
The Austrian Service Abroad is funded and supervised by the Austrian
Ministry of Social Affairs
A Ministry of Social Affairs or Department of Social Affairs is the common name for a government department found in states where the government is divided into ministries or departments. While there is some variation in the responsibilities of s ...
and subject to the Austrian Federal Act on the Promotion of Voluntary Services (''Bundesgesetz zur Förderung von freiwilligem Engagement''.)
Types of service
Austrian Service Abroad offers three different types:
Gedenkdienst (Österreichischer Gedenkdienst)
Gedenkdienst
Gedenkdienst is the concept of facing and taking responsibility for the darkest chapters of one's own country's history while ideally being financially supported by one's own country's government to do so. Founded in Austria in 1992 by Andreas Ma ...
is the concept of facing and taking responsibility for the darkest chapters of one's own country's history while ideally being financially supported by one's own country's government to do so. Gedenkdienst has the ''acknowledgment'' of, the ''apology'' for and the ''assumption of responsibility'' for atrocities done by one's own country's society in history as its basis. Gedenkdienst is about honesty with one's country's past and the desire to rectify past wrongs. Gedenkdienst is about providing people of the perpetrator's side a platform for education and going to the victim's side to serve the remembrance of the evil done and the commemoration of its victims. Gedenkdienst is about peace on the basis of honesty regarding the past.
The program was founded in 1992 and has been a part of the association Austrian Service Abroad since 1998. It remembers the crimes of Nazism and commemorates its victims. Gedenkdiener work for
Holocaust remembrance memorials and institutions as well as research facilities. Examples are the
Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, the
World Jewish Congress
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations. According to its mission statement, the World Jewish Congress' main purpose is to act as ...
in
New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* ...
, the
Jewish Museum Berlin
The Jewish Museum Berlin (''Jüdisches Museum Berlin'') was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe. On of floor space, the museum presents the history of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, with new focuses ...
, the
Auschwitz Jewish Center
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It c ...
in Oswiecim or
Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...
in Jerusalem.
In addition, Austrian Holocaust Memorial servants are also sent to serve in former refuge countries of the victim groups persecuted by the
Nazis
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Naz ...
, for example to the
Casa Stefan Zweig in
Petrópolis (Brazil) or the
Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai
The Center for Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS, ) was established in 1988. It is a department of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Under the leadership of Dean Professor Pan Guang CJSS has become the most influential research institute in C ...
.
The program annually confers the
Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA) was founded by the Austrian Service Abroad in 2006.
Meaning
The prize is annually conferred to a person, a group of individuals or an institution, which has shown special endeavors for the memory ...
to actors "who have shown special endeavors for the memory of the Shoah".
Austrian Social Service (Österreichischer Sozialdienst)
Austrian social servants serve vulnerable social groups, support the economic and social development of the host country and contribute to environmental protection. They are active in projects relating to street-children, homeless people, educational projects and children villages, elderly and handicapped care, medical care, etc.
An example type of project is the improvement of drinking water supplies in countries of the
Third World
The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact. The United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Western European nations and their allies represented the "First W ...
. Andreas Daniel Matt, the first Austrian social servant was sent in 2004 to a SOS children's village in Lahore (Pakistan).
Since October 1998 hundreds of Austrian social servants have been assigned mainly to countries in Central and South America, Africa and Asia.
Since 2018 the Austrian Service Abroad also partakes in the progra
Understanding Israel sending young Austrians to do social service at child-care places and handicapped-care facilities in the state of Israel in cooperation with th
Israeli Volunteer Association
Austrian Peace Service (Österreichischer Friedensdienst)
Austrian Peace servants are stationed in organizations serving the achievement and protection of peace in connection with (armed) conflicts. They work, for example, at the
Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation The Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation was established in April 1998 by the City of Hiroshima to promote peace
Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly ...
in Japan, the
John Rabe House in Nanjing, China, the
Dayton International Peace Museum
The International Peace Museum (formerly the Dayton International Peace Museum) is a non-profit, primarily volunteer-run peace museum located in downtown Dayton, Ohio, United States. The Museum's mission is to promote, through education and colla ...
in Ohio, USA, the
Peace Palace
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in The Hague and the Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights in Osijek, Croatia.
Awards
On September 3 2019 the Austrian Service Abroad received the John Rabe Peace Award, issued by the
John Rabe Communication Centre
The John Rabe Communication Centre is an information centre and museum in Heidelberg, which was founded by Thomas Rabe with the ambition of the documentation of the life of John Rabe. With the help of the diaries of John Rabe it should set a base ...
, for the contributions of the Austrian Service Abroad for peace between different cultures.
International Advisory Board
The International Council is the advisory arm for the executive committee of the Austrian Service Abroad regarding all matters of the respective country.
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Erika Rosenberg
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Paul R. Bartrop
Paul R. Bartrop (born November 3, 1955) is an Australian historian of the Holocaust and genocide. From August 2012 until December 2020 he was Professor of History and Director of the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Florida ...
*: Eli Tauber
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Alberto Dines✝
*: Walter Absil✝
*: Roland Spendlingwimmer
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Branko Lustig
Branko Lustig (10 June 1932 – 14 November 2019) was a Croatian film producer best known for winning Academy Awards for Best Picture for ''Schindler's List'' and ''Gladiator''. He is the only person born in the territory of present-day Croatia t ...
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Michel Cullin
Michel Cullin (17 September 1944 – 3 March 2020) was ''"Maître de conférences“'' at the University of Nice and director of French-Austrian relations at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.
Life
Cullin was born in Paris. After he earned h ...
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Beate Klarsfeld
Beate Auguste Klarsfeld (née Künzel; born 13 February 1939) is a Franco-German journalist and Nazi hunter who, along with her French husband, Serge, became famous for their investigation and documentation of numerous Nazi war criminals, in ...
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Gabriela von Habsburg
Archduchess Gabriela von Habsburg (born 14 October 1956) is an abstract sculptor, working mainly in stainless steel as well as stone-printed lithography. She was the ambassador of Georgia to Germany from 2009 to 2013. She is the granddaughter ...
*:
Thomas Rabe
Thomas N. Rabe (born February 18, 1951 in Heidelberg) is a German professor for gynaecology and obstetrics at the University Hospital Heidelberg. He is author of several scientific publications and reference books.
Biography
Rabe earned his ...
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György Dalos
György Dalos (born 23 September 1943) is a Hungarian Jewish writer and historian. He is best known for his novel ''1985'', and ''The Guest from the Future: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin''.
Life
Dalos was born in Budapest and spent his child ...
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Barbara Nath-Wiser
*: Ben Segenreich
*:
Camilla Brunelli
*: Daniel Janetschek
*: Eugene Sensenig
*: Festus Imarhiagbe
*:
Władysław Bartoszewski
Władysław Bartoszewski (; 19 February 1922 – 24 April 2015) was a Polish politician, social activist, journalist, writer and historian. A former Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, he was a World War II resistance fighter as part of the ...
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Konstanty Gebert
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Ilya Altman
*:
Charles M. Huber
*: Tali Nates
*:
Gerald Nagler
*
Anita Winter*:
Ladislaus Löb
Ladislaus Löb (8 May 1933 – 2 October 2021) was a writer, translator, Holocaust survivor, scholar of the literature and drama of the German Enlightenment and Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Sussex in England. He was the auth ...
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Randolph M. Bell,
Anna Rosmus
Anna Rosmus, also known as Anja Rosmus-Wenninger, is a German author and researcher born in 1960 in Passau, Bavaria.
Early life and research
As a 16-year-old, Rosmus started developing an interest in contemporary history, especially that of th ...
*
Ernst Florian Winter✝, former Chairman
Domestic Advisory Board
The national council is the domestic advisory arm for the executive committee of the Austrian Service Abroad.
*
Hubert Achleitner, musician
*
Emil Brix
Emil Brix (born 1956) is an Austrian diplomat and historian.
Life and career
Born 1956 in Vienna, he studied English and History at the University of Vienna. Starting in 1982, he worked for the Foreign Service of the Republic of Austria. From ...
, diplomat & historian and director of the
Diplomatic Academy of Vienna
The Diplomatic Academy of Vienna (DA; German: ''Diplomatische Akademie Wien''), also known as the Vienna School of International Studies, is a postgraduate professional school based in Vienna, Austria, with focused training for students and pr ...
*
Marko Feingold✝, Holocaust survivor and former president of the Jewish community in
Salzburg
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Paul Lendvai
Paul Lendvai (born Lendvai Pál on August 24, 1929) is a Hungarian-born Austrian journalist. He moved to Austria in 1957, where he works as an author and journalist.
Biography
Lendvai was born on August 24, 1929, in Budapest to Jewish parent ...
, Journalist
*
Ernst Löschner, Founder of Alpine Peace Crossing
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Manfred Nowak
Manfred Nowak (born 26 June 1950 in Bad Aussee) is an Austrian human rights lawyer, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010. He is Secretary General of the European Inter-University Center for Human Rig ...
, human rights lawyer
*
Eva Nowotny, former Austrian ambassador to the United States, France and the United Kingdom
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Wolfgang Petritsch
Wolfgang Petritsch (born 26 August 1947) is an Austrian diplomat of Slovene ethnicity.
Between 1999 and 2002 Petritsch served as the international High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Early life and studies
Petritsch was born to a Ca ...
, diplomat and former
High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina
The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, together with the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, were created in 1995 immediately after the signing of the Dayton Agreement which ended the 1992–1995 Bos ...
*
Michael Schnitzler, ecologist and musician
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Renée Schroeder
Renée Schroeder (born 18 May 1953, in João Monlevade, Brazil) is an Austrian researcher and university professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vie ...
, researcher and university professor
*
Danielle Spera
Danielle Spera (born 10 August 1957, in Vienna) is an Austrian journalist, writer, and a former director of the Jewish Museum Vienna.
Education and work Academic career
Spera studied English and French for two semesters at the University of V ...
, director of the
Jewish Museum Vienna
The Jüdisches Museum Wien, trading as ''Jüdisches Museum der Stadt Wien GmbH'' or the Jewish Museum Vienna, is a museum of Jewish history, life and religion in Austria. The museum is present on two locations, in the Palais Eskeles in the Doro ...
*
Richard Trappl, sinologist, director of the
Confucius Institute
Confucius Institutes (CI; ) are public educational and cultural promotion programs funded and arranged currently by the , a government-organized non-governmental organization (GONGO) under the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic o ...
in Vienna and professor at the
University of Vienna
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August Zirner
August Zirner (born 7 January 1956) is an American-Austrian actor, who starred in over 60 film productions. He is one of the most popular actors in Germany.
Biography
Zirner was born as son of Austrian Jewish immigrants in the United States in ...
, American-Austrian actor
Partners
The US is currently the country with the largest number of places offered for
Holocaust Memorial Service.
Holocaust Museums and Memorial Institutions like the
Simon Wiesenthal Center and the
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in
Los Angeles received several Holocaust Memorial Servants since the 1990s.
At present, Austrian Service Abroad sends young Austrians to the following partner institutions:
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Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South Am ...
Center for homeless children and adolescents
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Melbourne -
Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre
:::The Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre considers the finest memorial to all victims of racist policies to be an educational program which aims to combat anti-Semitism, racism and prejudice in the community and foster understanding between people. The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service representatives work in different fields and areas of responsibility, undertaking translation, research, working in the library and on the museum’s database, and helping with exhibitions and events.
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Minsk - Belarusian Children's Hospice
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Minsk - Dietski Dom No. 6 (Children's Home No. 6)
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Minsk - Kindergarten for Children with Special Needs
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Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
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Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
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European Union of Jewish Students
The European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS) is an umbrella organization for 34 national Jewish student unions in Europe and the Post-Soviet states, representing over 200,000 Jewish students.
International Memberships
EUJS is a constituent m ...
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Sarajevo - Phoenix Initiative
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Alagoinhas
Alagoinhas is a city in the Brazilian state
The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation and self-collection) and endowed wi ...
- Associacao Lar Sao Benedito
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Lauro de Freitas
Lauro de Freitas is a municipality in Bahia, Brazil. It covers and a population of 201,635 (2020 est.). Lauro de Freitas has a population density of 3,376 inhabitants per square kilometer. It is located from the state capital of Bahia, Salvador ...
- Community Centre Christ Liberator
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Petrópolis -
Casa Stefan Zweig
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Rio de Janeiro Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)
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Sofia -
Schalom - Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria
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Montreal -
Holocaust Memorial Centre
:::The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre was founded by a group of Holocaust survivors and opened to the public in 1979. Through its Museum, its commemorative programs and its educational initiatives, the Centre aims to alert the public to the dangers of anti-Semitism, bigotry and hate, while promoting respect for diversity and the sanctity of human life. The field of activity of an ‘Austrian Holocaust Memorial Volunteer’ at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre is very diverse. The duties range from helping with tasks in the office, to translations (German-English) as well as to research assistance or to the description and digitization of collection artefacts. Another essential part of the work schedule is covering the museum front desk. In doing so, the volunteer interacts with Holocaust survivors, students, teachers and visitors to coordinate tours and to ensure a proper daily routine. Furthermore, the volunteer is involved in several projects and events including “Witness to History”, “A Bar &Bat Mitzvah to Remember”, “Kristallnacht Commemoration”, and others.
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Montreal -
Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention Foundation
:::The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant at the former “Kleinmann Family Foundation” which is now entitled
Holocaust Education and Genocide Prevention Foundation digitalizes and archives artifacts, documents and photographs as well as maintains and improves the database and the website. The volunteer gives presentations in high schools and colleges about the Holocaust and Moral Responsibility. The servant also interviews Holocaust survivors for "Oral History"-projects.
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Toronto - Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre / Hillel Canada
:::This internship is a joint partnership between Jewish Federation of Canada-United Israel Appeal of Canada's University campus Hillel Canada and United Jewish Appeal Federation of Greater Toronto's Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre. The intern's primary responsibilities will be to complete projects that have been assigned by the two agencies. The intern will be supporting students in developing new education programs in terms of the Holocaust with the center and on university campuses. Other tasks are: support for the organization of the education trip to Vienna for Canadian, Jewish students, outreach to, and maintaining connection with local schools in terms of Holocaust education-related activities.
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Beijing
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Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 2 ...
Beijing International Peace Culture Foundation::*
Shanghai -
Center of Jewish Studies
:::The Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS) was established in 1988 as an institute of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, the oldest and second biggest political think tank in PR China.Under Prof. PAN Guang’s leadership the CJSS has established itself as one of the leading research institutes in China studying Judaism and Israeli affairs. The CJSS focuses its research on three academic fields: (1) the Shanghai Jewish Refugees (Holocaust refugees during World War II), (2) the remnants of Jewish communities in China (the largest of which are in Tianjin, Harbin and Kaifeng) and (3) political studies on the Near East. Amongst the publications of the CJSS are “The Jews of China”, “The Jewish Civilization”, “The Revitalization of the Jewish People” and “Jews in China: Legends, History and New Perspectives”. The CJSS has organized several national as well as international academic conferences along with so-called Rickshaw Reunions (reunions of Holocaust refugees who survived the Holocaust in Shanghai). Since 2006 the CJSS receives each year an Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant from the Austrian Service Abroad. The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servants‘ duties include: organizing Holocaust-related educational events, assisting the CJSS’ staff with organizing exhibitions and academic conferences, as well as translation and publication work and maintaining the CJSS’ archive. Providing tours for visitors of the CJSS and the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum (former Ohel Moshe Synagogue).
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Nanjing -
John Rabe and International Safety Zone Memorial Hall
:::The John Rabe and International Safety Zone Memorial Hall is one of the two Peace Service Partners of the Austrian Service Abroad. The Center was established to commemorate Rabe and his deep love of humanity, who saved over 600 Chinese refugees from the Japanese persecution. It is also intended to refresh people’s memories and let them learn about this chapter of Chinese history so that tragedies of this kind will never occur again. Moreover, the project is meant to promote world peace and humanitarianism everywhere, and to further develop friendly communications and cooperations among the Chinese people and other countries around the world. At the John Rabe House, the Peace Servant's main tasks are assistant and translation work, as well as self-dependent research and investigation. Furthermore, he or she aids in internal and external teamwork projects and in developing websites. Requirements for the Peace Service are good Chinese and English language skills, the ability to work self-dependent and to participate in international teamwork.
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La Gamba
La Gamba is a village in the Guaycará District of Golfito canton, which is part of Puntarenas Province of Costa Rica. Village inhabitants are employed in agriculture and in jobs offered in cities such as Golfito and Rio Claro.
This village was ...
Tropical Field Station La Gamba:::The biological station in
La Gamba
La Gamba is a village in the Guaycará District of Golfito canton, which is part of Puntarenas Province of Costa Rica. Village inhabitants are employed in agriculture and in jobs offered in cities such as Golfito and Rio Claro.
This village was ...
is an Austrian institution, which serves as a base for investigations for scientists from all over the world. Furthermore, the station started projects like the reforestation, the creation of environmental awareness and also projects to support the inhabitants. Our servants in
La Gamba
La Gamba is a village in the Guaycará District of Golfito canton, which is part of Puntarenas Province of Costa Rica. Village inhabitants are employed in agriculture and in jobs offered in cities such as Golfito and Rio Claro.
This village was ...
help to keep the station functional and collaborate in many of the named projects.
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Finca Sonador - Finca Sonador
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Osijek Centre for Peace, Nonviolence and Human Rights
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Prague - Federation of Jewish Communities
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Oradour -
Centre de la Mémoire d'Oradour
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Paris -
La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation
LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States.
La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music
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* "L.A.", a song by Elliott Smith on ''Figure ...
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Paris -
Amicale de Mauthausen The Amicale de Mauthausen is a French institution in memory of the Mauthausen concentration camp and its many
subcamps. Founded in october 1945 by survivors of the Mauthausen concentration camp the Amicale de Mauthausen is present at the annual camp liberation ceremonies in Austria and organizes excursions for its members as well as for French high school students. The volunteers tasks include french-german translations of documents and assistance with the planning of excursions as well as the digitalization of the organizations archives.
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Strasbourg -
Congress of the Council of Europe
The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities is the pan-European political assembly representing local and regional authorities from the forty-six member states of the Council of Europe. Its role is to promote local and regional democracy, imp ...
, European Alliance of Cities and Regions for Roma Inclusion
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Lambaréné
Lambaréné is a town and the capital of Moyen-Ogooué in Gabon. It has a population of 38,775 as of 2013, and is located 75 kilometres south of the equator.
Lambaréné is based in the Central African Rainforest at the river Ogooué. This rive ...
- Medical Research Unit,
Albert Schweitzer Hospital
Albert may refer to:
Companies
* Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
* Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
* Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia
* Albert Productions, a record label
* Albert C ...
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Tbilisi - Act for Transformation Caucasus Office
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Berchtesgaden
Berchtesgaden () is a municipality in the district Berchtesgadener Land, Bavaria, in southeastern Germany, near the border with Austria, south of Salzburg and southeast of Munich. It lies in the Berchtesgaden Alps, south of Berchtesgaden; th ...
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Dokumentation Obersalzberg
:::The Dokumentation Obersalzberg is a place of guided learning and remembrance designed by the
Institut für Zeitgeschichte. At the Dokumentation Obersalzberg the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant works at the museum educational service. The main part of the work is the organisation of guided tours and workshops. He also gets the opportunity to create new educational material like workshops.
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Berlin -
Jewish Museum Berlin
The Jewish Museum Berlin (''Jüdisches Museum Berlin'') was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe. On of floor space, the museum presents the history of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, with new focuses ...
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Berlin - Ecumenical Memorial Centre Plötzensee - Christians and Resistance
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Cölbe
Cölbe () is a municipality in Marburg-Biedenkopf district in Hesse, Germany.
Location
Cölbe's municipal area lies on the southern edge of the ''Burgwald'', a low mountain range and part of the ''Hessisches Bergland'' (Hessian Highland), and ...
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Moringen
Moringen is a town in the district Northeim, in the southern part of Lower Saxony, Germany. The town consists of the center Moringen and eight surrounding villages, Fredelsloh being one of them.
History
The town and its villages were founded over ...
Concentration Camp Memorial at Torhaus Moringen::*
Munich -
Jewish Museum Munich
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Santa Rosita - ASOL Casa Hogar
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Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population o ...
Tom Lantos Institute
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Auroville
Auroville (; City of Dawn) is an experimental township in Viluppuram district, mostly in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, with some parts in the Union Territory of Pondicherry in India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa (known as "the M ...
Auroville Action Group (AVAG)::*
Dharamsala -
Nishtha - Rural Health, Education and Environment Center
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Dharamsala Tibetan Children´s Village::*
Dharmshala -
Tibetan Welfare Office
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Kochi
Kochi (), also known as Cochin ( ) ( the official name until 1996) is a major port city on the Malabar Coast of India bordering the Laccadive Sea, which is a part of the Arabian Sea. It is part of the district of Ernakulam in the state of Ke ...
Mata Amritanandamayi Mission
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Jerusalem -
St. Vincent-Ein Kerem
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Jerusalem -
Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...
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Tel Aviv -
Wiener Library for the Study of the Nazi Era and the Holocaust
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Milan -
Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea
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Prato -
Museo della Deportazione
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Rome - Fondazione Museo della Shoah
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Hiroshima -
Peace Culture Foundation
:::The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum exhibit presents the facts of the atomic bombing, with the aim of contributing to the abolition of nuclear weapons throughout the world, and to achieve the world peace. The main tasks of the Austrian Peace Servant at the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation is assistant and translation work, self-dependent research and investigation, as well as internal and external teamwork projects. Requirements for the Peace Servant are good Japanese language skills, very good English language skills and the abilities to work self-dependent and participate in international teamwork.
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Antalaha
Antalaha is an urban municipality in northern Madagascar. It belongs to the district of Antalaha, which is a part of Sava Region. The population of Antalaha was 67.888 in 2018.
Antalaha has a maritime harbour. A local airport serves Antalaha. ...
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D'Analalava
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Mexico City - Museo Memoria y Tolerancia
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Marrakech
Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrake ...
Atlas Foundation.org High Atlas Foundation
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The Hague Bertha von Suttner Peace Institute::*
The Hague - The
Peace Palace
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Amsterdam -
UNITED for Intercultural Action
UNITED for Intercultural Action is a European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees, in which over 560 organisations from 48 European countries cooperate. UNITED was founded in 1992 (officially regi ...
:::The main part of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant at UNITED is secretarial work, which includes assisting, translating documents, doing self dependent research and investigation, as well as organising internal and external teamwork-projects. The Servant is engaged with organising conferences, administrating databases, publishing reports and preparing future projects.
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Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by me ...
Holocaust Centre of New Zealand
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Granada Casa de los Tres Mundos
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Lahore - SOS
SOS Children's Village Association
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Lahore - proLoka Pakistan
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Lima The information and education centre for the prevention of drug abuseCEDRO Cedro refers to the following places:
* Cedro, Ceará, municipality in the state of Ceará, Brazil
* Cedro, Pernambuco, city in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil
* Cedro, Cayey, Puerto Rico, barrio in the municipality of Cayey, Puerto Rico
* Cedr ...
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Kraków -
Judaica Foundation - Center For Jewish Culture
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Kraków - PAH Polska Akcja Humanitarna
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Kraków -
Galicia Jewish Museum
The Galicia Jewish Museum ( Polish: ''Żydowskie Muzeum Galicja'') is located in the historic Jewish district of Kazimierz in Kraków, Poland. It is a photo exhibition documenting the remnants of Jewish culture and life in Polish Galicia, which ...
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Oświęcim
Oświęcim (; german: Auschwitz ; yi, אָשפּיצין, Oshpitzin) is a city in the Lesser Poland ( pl, Małopolska) province of southern Poland, situated southeast of Katowice, near the confluence of the Vistula (''Wisła'') and Soła riv ...
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Auschwitz Jewish Center
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It c ...
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Moscow -
Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center
The Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center was founded in 1992 in Moscow and has since then been working on awareness raising of the Holocaust in the Russian society. It is the only non-governmental organization in the Russian Federation ...
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Saint Petersburg -
GU SRZ Vera
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Kigali
Kigali () is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali has been Rwanda's economic, cultu ...
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Kigali Genocide Memorial
The Kigali Genocide Memorial commemorates the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The remains of over 250,000 people are interred there.
There is a visitor centre for students and others wishing to understand the events leading up to the genocide that occurr ...
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Cape Town -
Cape Town Holocaust Centre
The Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre began as Africa's first Holocaust centre founded in 1999. The Centre works towards creating a more caring and just society in which human rights and diversity are respected and valued. Through exhibitions ...
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Durban Durban Holocaust and Genocide Centre::*
Johannesburg Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre
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Stockholm Forum för levande historia::*
Uppsala
Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Located north of the capi ...
Uppsala Universitet
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Zurich GAMARAAL Foundation
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Kilis Kareemat Merkez
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Fort Portal
Fort Portal or Kabarole is a city located in the Western Region of Uganda. It is the seat of both Kabarole District and historically of the Toro Kingdom.
Location
Fort Portal in Kabarole District is located approximately by road, west of Kamp ...
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Mountains of the Moon University
The Mountains of the Moon University (MMU), is a public university in Uganda. Founded as a private, non-profit institution, the university became a public institution following an executive directive in January 2018. It is named after the Rwenzor ...
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Kyiv (Kiew)
Jewish Foundation of Ukraine (JFU)
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::*London -
Royal London Society for the Blind
::*London
The National Yad Vashem Charitable Trust::*London -
Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library
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Dayton
Dayton () is the sixth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County. A small part of the city extends into Greene County. The 2020 U.S. census estimate put the city population at 137,644, while Greater Da ...
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Dayton International Peace Museum
The International Peace Museum (formerly the Dayton International Peace Museum) is a non-profit, primarily volunteer-run peace museum located in downtown Dayton, Ohio, United States. The Museum's mission is to promote, through education and colla ...
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Los Angeles -
Simon Wiesenthal Center
:::The main part of the work of an Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant at the Simon Wiesenthal Center is working as a tour guide in the
Museum of Tolerance
The Museum of Tolerance-Beit HaShoah (MOT, House of the Holocaust), a multimedia museum in Los Angeles, California, United States, is designed to examine racism and prejudice around the world with a strong focus on the history of the Holocaust. T ...
, which is the educational arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. These tour groups are mainly Middle School and High School students from the Los Angeles area, but also from further away. Besides from giving tours, the servant also helps out public visitors to the museum, helps with translations and interacts with Holocaust survivors as well.
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Los Angeles -
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
Holocaust Museum LA, formerly known as Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, is a museum located in Pan Pacific Park within the Fairfax district of Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1961 by Holocaust survivors, Holocaust Museum LA is the oldest ...
:::The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust serves as tour guide, facilitates seminars and lectures by survivor docents, and works with teachero schedule and coordinate tours. The volunteer interacts with Holocaust survivors, students, teachers and visitors to the Museum on a daily basis. The servant also works with primary documents and artifacts, which he translates, reviews and interprets.
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Los Angeles -
:::The volunteer at "USC Shoah Foundation Institute" for Visual History and Education translates all types of different documents, from contracts to letters; he also helps to translate German terms or places which often appear in interviews with Holocaust Survivors. A main task for the Holocaust Servant is indexing German testimonies and maintaining the museum's database. Further, he helps the museum organizing different events like discussions or film screenings.
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New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* ...
- The
World Jewish Congress
The World Jewish Congress (WJC) was founded in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1936 as an international federation of Jewish communities and organizations. According to its mission statement, the World Jewish Congress' main purpose is to act as ...
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New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* ...
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Museum of Jewish Heritage
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...
:::At the Museum of Jewish Heritage, which tells the story of Jewish life before, during and after the
Holocaust and also hosts galleries for special exhibitions, the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant works in the Collections & Exhibitions Department, where he is in charge of translating documents and other artifacts into English. Besides he listens to audio testimonies of Holocaust Survivors in either English or German and writes summaries, which are added to the museum's database. Further tasks include maintaining the database, guiding visitors, research and the installation of new exhibits.
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New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* ...
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Anti-Defamation League
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, is an international Jewish non-governmental organization based in the United States specializing in civil rights law. It was founded in late Septe ...
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New York
New York most commonly refers to:
* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
New York may also refer to:
Film and television
* ...
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American Jewish Committee
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) is a Jewish advocacy group established on November 11, 1906. It is one of the oldest Jewish advocacy organizations and, according to ''The New York Times'', is "widely regarded as the dean of American Jewish or ...
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Reno
Reno ( ) is a city in the northwest section of the U.S. state of Nevada, along the Nevada-California border, about north from Lake Tahoe, known as "The Biggest Little City in the World". Known for its casino and tourism industry, Reno is the ...
Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Peace Studies::*
Richmond
Richmond most often refers to:
* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
* Richmond, London, a part of London
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
* Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada
* Richmond, Californi ...
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Virginia Holocaust Museum
The Virginia Holocaust Museum (VHM) is a public history museum located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The museum is dedicated to depicting the Holocaust through the personal stories of its victims.
History
The VHM first opened in 1997, fo ...
:::The Virginia Holocaust Museum features 28 exhibitions including “The Ipson Saga,” which documents the story of Museum Director and Founder, Jay M. Ipson and his family from pre-war
Lithuania, through their escape to liberation. The
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries, and other crimes, in World War II.
Between 1939 and 1945, Nazi Germany invaded ...
Courtroom exhibition is the only existing replica of the famous courtroom that set the standard for modern international law. The tasks for the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servant are manifold. Duties at the Virginia Holocaust Museum range from giving tours through the permanent exhibit to translations (German-English) to assisting in research or helping at the reception desk among other things.
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San Francisco -
Holocaust Center of Northern California
''The Holocaust Center of Northern California'' (HCNC) is a non-profit organization formed to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust never be forgotten. HCNC provides services and programs to fulfill its mission of education, research and rememb ...
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St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
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The Florida Holocaust Museum
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Chicago -
Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is a museum located in Skokie, Illinois, near Chicago. According to the Center's mission statement, its founding principle is to "Remember the Past; Transform the Future." Its mission is to pre ...
:::The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servants help in the administration, assist in education, event planning and museum tours. Furthermore, they are responsible for translations between German and English. After having received special training they will also guide groups through the museum.
Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
In 2006 Andreas Maislinger, chairman of the Austrian Service Abroad, initiated the
Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA). Winners:
2006:
Pan Guang
Pan Guang (; born June 7, 1947) is the Director of and Professor at the Shanghai Center for International Studies and Institute of European & Asian Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Director of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organis ...
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Shanghai,
PR China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...
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2007:
Alberto Dines,
Sao Paulo
SAO or Sao may refer to:
Places
* Sao civilisation, in Middle Africa from 6th century BC to 16th century AD
* Sao, a town in Boussé Department, Burkina Faso
* Saco Transportation Center (station code SAO), a train station in Saco, Maine, U. ...
,
Brazil
2008:
Robert Hébras
Robert Hébras (29 June 1925 – 11 February 2023) was one of only six people to survive the massacre of Oradour by Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS Das Reich Panzer Division on 10 June 1944. He was born in Oradour-sur-Glane.
Hébras died on 11 Febru ...
,
Oradour-sur-Glane
Oradour-sur-Glane (; oc, Orador de Glana) was a commune in the Haute-Vienne department, New Aquitaine, west central France, as well as the name of the main village within the commune.
History
The original village was destroyed on 10 June 19 ...
, France
2009:
Jay M. Ipson,
Richmond, Virginia, United States
2010:
Eva Marks
Eva Marks (born July 1, 1932 in Vienna – January 27, 2020) was a survivor of the Holocaust and the wife of Stan Marks.
Life
Born in Vienna
en, Viennese
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Melbourne, Australia
2011:
Auschwitz Jewish Center
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It c ...
,
Oswiecim,
Poland
2012:
Ladislaus Löb
Ladislaus Löb (8 May 1933 – 2 October 2021) was a writer, translator, Holocaust survivor, scholar of the literature and drama of the German Enlightenment and Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Sussex in England. He was the auth ...
, United Kingdom
2013:
Hugo Höllenreiner,
Munich, Germany
2014:
Marģers Vestermanis
Marģers Vestermanis (born 18 September 1925) is a Latvian Holocaust survivor, historian, founder and former director of the museum Jews in Latvia.
Life
Youth and World War II
Marģers Vestermanis was born in Riga into a Latvian Jewish, Ge ...
,
Riga,
Latvia
2015:
Erika Rosenberg, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016:
Giorgio Frassineti
Giorgio Frassineti (29 September 1964 in Forlì) is an Italian politician of the Partito Democratico (PD) and from 2009 to 2019 mayor of Predappio.
Early life
In 1990, Frassineti completed his study in geography at University of Bologna.
C ...
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Predappio (
Forlì
Forlì ( , ; rgn, Furlè ; la, Forum Livii) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. It is the central city of Romagna.
The city is situated along the Via E ...
), Italy
2017:
Ruben Fuks
Reuben or Reuven is a Biblical male first name from Hebrew רְאוּבֵן (Re'uven), meaning "behold, a son". In the Bible, Reuben was the firstborn son of Jacob.
Variants include Rúben in European Portuguese; Rubens in Brazilian Portugu ...
,
Belgrade
Belgrade ( , ;, ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 m ...
,
Serbia
2018:
Alla Gerber and
Ilya Altman,
Moscow,
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eight ...
2019:
Tomislav Dulic
Tomislav (, ) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin, that is widespread amongst the South Slavs.
The meaning of the name ''Tomislav'' is thought to have derived from the Old Slavonic verb "'' tomiti''" or "'' tomit" meaning to "''languish ...
, Uppsala, Sweden
2020:
Dušan Stefančič, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Austrian Servant Abroad of the Year
2004
Stefan Stoev,
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC,
United States
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Dr. Andreas Daniel Matt SOS Children's Villages Lahore,
Pakistan
200
Martin Wallner Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai
The Center for Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS, ) was established in 1988. It is a department of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Under the leadership of Dean Professor Pan Guang CJSS has become the most influential research institute in C ...
, China
200
Daniel James Schuster Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem ( he, יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a memorial and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. It is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Jews who were murdered; honoring Jews who fought against th ...
Jerusalem, Israel
200
René J. Laglstorfer Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour, France &
Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai
The Center for Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS, ) was established in 1988. It is a department of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Under the leadership of Dean Professor Pan Guang CJSS has become the most influential research institute in C ...
, China
200
Joerg Reitmaier Auschwitz Jewish Center
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It c ...
,
Poland &
Virginia Holocaust Museum
The Virginia Holocaust Museum (VHM) is a public history museum located in Richmond, Virginia, United States. The museum is dedicated to depicting the Holocaust through the personal stories of its victims.
History
The VHM first opened in 1997, fo ...
, United States
201
Peter Loibner GU SRZ Vera, Russia
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Francesco KonigsbergerFederation of Jewish Communities Czech Republic,
Cornelius Schwärzler Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center
The Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center was founded in 1992 in Moscow and has since then been working on awareness raising of the Holocaust in the Russian society. It is the only non-governmental organization in the Russian Federation ...
, Russia
Fondazione Museo della Shoa Italy &
Dokumentation Obersalzberg, Germany,
David Witzeneder& Finca Salvador,
Costa Rica
202
Jonathan DornerHolocaust Museum LAMonika Messner Na’amat Kindertagesstätte
2021 Raphael Faul, Florian Müller, Matthias Kralupper, Haris Hadzimejlic, Raffael Winkler
Ethical Foundation
The core concept underlying the initiative of the Austrian Service Abroad is the concept of responsibility. Hereby the initiative is guided by the ethics conceptualized by the Jewish philosopher
Hans Jonas who defined the following supreme moral imperative: "Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life".
[''The Legacy of Hans Jonas: Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life'', edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Christian Wiese, BRILL, 2008, p. 135.] By integrating the chronological dimensions of ''past'', ''present'' and ''future'', in addition to the totality of ''humanity'' and the full dimension of ''space'', the Austrian Service Abroad is about supporting life in an ethical, sustainable, global, responsible and permanent manner.
See also
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Andreas Maislinger
Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian historian and political scientist and founder and chairman of the Austrian Service Abroad, including the Gedenkdienst, the Austrian Social Service a ...
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Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
Gedenkdienst is the concept of facing and taking responsibility for the darkest chapters of one's own country's history while ideally being financially supported by one's own country's government to do so. Founded in Austria in 1992 by Andreas Ma ...
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Austrian Social Service
The Austrian Social Service (''Österreichischer Sozialdienst'') is part of the Austrian Service Abroad founded by Dr. Andreas Maislinger in 1998. It offers the possibility to substitute the compulsory military service in Austria with a 10-months s ...
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Austrian Peace Service
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Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA) was founded by the Austrian Service Abroad in 2006.
Meaning
The prize is annually conferred to a person, a group of individuals or an institution, which has shown special endeavors for the memory ...
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Ernst Florian Winter
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House of Responsibility
The House of Responsibility (HRB) in Braunau am Inn is the idea of establishing an international meeting place and a place of learning in the birth house of Adolf Hitler. People from all countries, backgrounds, religions and cultures should meet in ...
References
External links
Austrian Service Abroad WebsiteHouse of Responsibility WebsiteRadio Auslandsdienst (German)
Holocaust commemoration
Foreign relations of Austria
Non-profit organisations based in Austria
Organisations based in Innsbruck
Braunau am Inn
Student exchange
Organizations established in 1998
1998 establishments in Austria