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Elfriede Grünberg Award
The Elfriede Grünberg Prize () has been conferred annually since 2000 by the Austrian Welser Initiative Against Fascism for merits in the fight against Nazism. The award was named after the Holocaust victim Elfriede Grünberg. Namesake Elfriede Grünberg (1929–1942) was murdered by the Nazi regime for racist reasons, like her mother and her aunt. Her father Max was able to emigrate to Shanghai in 1939. On June 9, 1942, Elfriede Grünberg and her mother were deported from Vienna to the Maly Trostenets extermination camp. Six days later, Elfriede was probably killed in a Nazi gas van, gas van. Award recipients * 2000 Johann Kalliauer, Rudolf Anschober, Wilhelm Achleitner, Raimund Buttinger * 2001 Reinhard Kannonier, Rudolf Kropf, Michael John, Erwin Peterseil * 2002 Waltraud Neuhauser, Karl Ramsmaier, Josef Adlmannseder, Günter Kalliauer * 2003 Herta Eva Schreiber, Rudolf Haunschmid, Albert Langanke, Wolfgang Quatember * 2004 Ursula Hüttmayr, Erich Gumplmaier, Andreas Grub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazism
Nazism (), formally named National Socialism (NS; , ), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany. During Hitler's rise to power, it was frequently referred to as Hitler Fascism () and Hitlerism (). The term " neo-Nazism" is applied to other far-right groups with similar ideology, which formed after World War II, and after Nazi Germany collapsed. Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. Its beliefs include support for dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, anti-Romani sentiment, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism, homophobia, ableism, and the use of eugenics. The ultranationalism of the Nazis originated in pan-Germanism and the ethno-nationalist '' Völkisch'' movement which had been a prominent aspect of German ultranationalism since the late 19th centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maly Trostenets Extermination Camp
Maly Trostenets (Maly Trascianiec, , "Little Trostenets") is a village near Minsk in Belarus, formerly the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. During Nazi Germany's occupation of the area during World War II (when the Germans referred to it as ''Reichskommissariat Ostland''), the village became the location of a Nazi extermination site. Throughout 1942, Jews from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia were taken by train to Maly Trostenets to be lined up in front of the pits and were shot. From the summer of 1942, mobile gas vans were also used. According to Yad Vashem, the Jews of Minsk were murdered and buried in Maly Trostenets and in another village, Bolshoi Trostinets, between 28 and 31 July 1942 and on 21 October 1943. As the Red Army approached the area in June 1944, the Germans murdered most of the prisoners and destroyed the camp. The estimates of how many people were murdered at Maly Trostenets vary. According to Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Gas Van
A gas van or gas wagon (, ; ; ) was a truck re-equipped as a mobile gas chamber. During World War II and the Holocaust, Nazi Germany developed and used gas vans on a large scale to kill inmates of asylums, Poles, Romani people, Jews, and prisoners in occupied Poland, Belarus, Nedić's Serbia, the Soviet Union, and other regions of German-occupied Europe. There are several documented cases of gas vans used by Soviet NKVD during the Great Purge. History Soviet Union According to historian Robert Gellately, "the Soviets sometimes used a gas van (''dushegubka''), as in Moscow during the 1930s, but how extensive that was needs further investigation." while Nazi killers have "invented the first gas van, which began operations in the Warthegau on January 15, 1940, under Herbert Lange". During the Great Purge in the Soviet Union, NKVD officer Isaj D. Berg used a specially adapted airtight van for gassing prisoners to death on an experimental basis. The prisoners were gassed on the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Gruber (director)
Andreas Gruber (born 2 November 1954) is an Austrian screenwriter and director of both television and film. From 1974 to 1982 he studied screenwriting and directing at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna. In 1979 he was directing assistant to Axel Corti. In 2000 he won the Golden Romy for best directing. His 2004 film '' Welcome Home'' was entered into the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. He teaches at the University of Television and Film Munich, Germany. Filmography * 1983 ''Drinnen & draußen''. TV-Film. Screenplay and directing. * 1989 ''Schalom, General''. TV-Film. Screenplay and directing. * 1991 ''Erste Wahrnehmung''. TV-Film. Screenplay and directing. * 1994 '' Hasenjagd – Vor lauter Feigheit gibt es kein Erbarmen''. (English title: The Quality of Mercy) Screenplay and directing. * 2004 '' Welcome Home''. Film. Screenplay and directing. Scouting He was 20 years a member of the Scout group in Wels Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludwig Laher
Ludwig Laher (born 11 December 1955 in Linz) is an Austrian writer. Life Ludwig Laher studied German, English and American Studies, as well as Classical Studies and graduated with a PhD. He then worked as a high school teacher at the Christian-Dopper high school in Salzburg, Austria. In 1993, Laher moved to St. Pantaleon, Upper Austria Upper Austria ( ; ; ) is one of the nine States of Austria, states of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg (state), Salzbur ... and has worked as an independent writer since 1998. He has published prose, lyrical poetry, essays, translations, scientific papers, radio plays and screenplays and received numerous literary prizes and scholarships. His novel Heart Flesh Degeneration has been praised by critics as well as by historians. External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Laher, Ludwig 1955 births Living people People from Brau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold Engleitner
Leopold Engleitner (23 July 1905 – 21 April 2013) was an Austrian conscientious objector, as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and a concentration camp survivor who spoke publicly and with students about his experiences. He was the subject of the documentary ''Unbroken Will''. Before his death, Engleitner was the world's oldest known male Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück concentration camp survivor and the oldest male Austrian. Imprisonment Born in Aigen-Voglhub, Austria, Engleiter grew up in the imperial city of Bad Ischl. He studied the Bible intensively in the 1930s and was baptised as a Jehovah's Witness in 1932. In the period up to World War II he faced religious intolerance, even persecution, from his immediate neighbourhood and the Austrian authorities, first by the fascist regime of Dollfuss and then under Nazi Germany. *Spring 1934: 48 hours in Bad Ischl prison *Winter 1934/35: 48 hours in Bad Ischl prison *5 January 1936 – 30 March 1936: imprisonment in St. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Rammerstorfer
Bernhard Rammerstorfer (born 1968) is an Austrian author and film director. His book ''Unbroken Will'' () is a biography of the Austrian Jehovah's Witness and Holocaust survivor Leopold Engleitner. He later made a documentary film with the same title. His 2012 documentary ''Ladder in the Lions' Den'', made with A. Ferenc Gutai, received a special jury mention at the online European International Film Festival in 2016, and took second place in the "Best Festival Film" category and won the "Best Documentary Film Award" at the Switzerland International Film Festival in 2018. Life and Work Bernhard Rammerstorfer is originally from Niederwaldkirchen, Austria. In 1999, he authored and published *Nein statt Ja und Amen*, a biography detailing the life of conscientious objector Leopold Engleitner. Rammerstorfer also produced the documentary film of the same name. In 2008, he released a revised edition of Engleitner's biography titled *Unbroken Will*, with an expanded and updated editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Skiba
Gerhard Skiba (1947 – 15 March 2019) was an Austrian politician of the Austrian Social Democratic Party elected mayor of the city of Braunau am Inn in 1989. He became internationally known after setting up a memorial stone for the victims of Fascism in front of the house where Adolf Hitler was born. Early life In 1992, representatives from Bautzen, Mauthausen, Wunsiedel and other towns with an “unwelcome heritage” followed his invitation for the 1st Braunau Contemporary History Days. ''"Old city": 750 years Braunau am Inn'' was the title of the 19th Contemporary History Days in September 2010. On 11 August 2000, Skiba invited Gunter Demnig, an artist from Cologne to lay four Stolpersteine for victims of the National Socialism in Braunau am Inn. Gerhard Skiba was awarded the Elfriede Grünberg Prize in 2007 to honor his merits to struggle National Socialism. The award is named after Holocaust-Victim Elfriede Grünberg. In 2006 also Leopold Engleitner (104), the oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norbert Trawöger
Norbert Trawöger is an Austrian flautist, teacher, writer and designing musician as well as artistic director of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz. Life and career Trawöger was born in Wels Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land, and with a population of approximately 60,000, the List of cities and towns in Austria, eighth largest city in Aus ..., the son of the musician Helmut Trawöger. He trained as a flutist in Vienna, Graz, Gothenburg and Amsterdam. Since 2013 he has been director of the Kepler Salon in Linz. Trawöger has been a member of the and board member of the Galerie Forum in Wels. Trawöger was personal advisor to the chief conductor Markus Poschner from autumn 2017 and was in charge of the dramaturgy and communication of the Bruckner Orchestra. Since March 2019 he has been artistic director of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz. Honours * Elfriede Grünberg Award for the conce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Maislinger
Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in Sankt Georgen bei Salzburg, St. Georgen near Salzburg, Austria) is an Austrian political scientist and wiktionary:Founder, founder and former chairman of the Austrian Service Abroad. He also is the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award, the Braunau Contemporary History Days and the inventor of the idea of the House of Responsibility. Studying and learning Maislinger studied law and political science in Salzburg and political science and eastern-European history in Vienna, with study visits in, amongst others, Frankfurt am Main and Innsbruck. During his studies in Salzburg, Maislinger advocated for Austrian participation in the International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz; Austrian president Rudolf Kirchschläger declined. Kirchschläger later acknowledged the value of Maislinger's proposal of civilian service for reconciliation and atonement related to the Holocaust. In 1980 he received his doctorate for a di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Hackl
Anna Hackl (born 1931) is a farmer in Schwertberg. In the middle of "Mühlviertler Hasenjagd" In February 1945, family Langthaler, who lived in a farmhouse in Schwertberg, hid two Russian prisoners of war: Mikhail Rybchinsky (died 2008) und Nikolai Tsemkalo (died 2001), who escaped from the concentration camp in Mauthausen. At the risk of jeopardizing with their own life, they gave them shelter for three months from February 2, 1945. Even when the SS and Volkssturm came to search the house they had not been betrayed. At this time, more than 500 prisoners had escaped. Just eleven of them survived the freezing temperature and the continuing pursuit of the SS. The majority of the refugees were caught and shot on the spot. These actions went down in history as Mühlviertler Hasenjagd. In the past years, then 14-year-old Anna Hackl, Langthaler by birth, also received honors on behalf of her deceased mother, Anna Langthaler. Anna Hackl, married and mother of five children, visits about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
