Trips to Israel are a delicate affair for Austrians given the history of the Holocaust. In the case of State Secretary Muna Duzdar, there is yet another aspect: the 38-year old Viennese is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants.
An exhibit at the Jewish Museum worth seeing with the slightly provocative title „The Better Half“ devotes itself to the rediscovery of Jewish female artists before 1938
The Committee on Internal Affairs of the [Austrian] National Council, the Austrian House of Representatives, has approved the transformation of the Mauthausen Memorial into a federal agency.
“We are convinced that Antisemitism on part of Islam tends to be on the rise”, says Oskar Deutsch from the Jewish Community (IKG) at the presentation of the report on Antisemitism in 2015.
After long hesitation, the time finally came: the [Austrian Government] coalition agrees to organize the Austrian memorials outside of the Ministry for the Interior.
