Memorial plaque in the Elkan-Haus Hohenems

The villa built around 1800 at Swiss Street 35, now known as the Elkan House, housed several prominent Jewish Hohenems families, including Steinach, Menz, and also Theodor Elkan, the last Kultusvorsteher of the community, who lived here with his family. In 1940, they were forcibly resettled from here to Vienna and from there deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. After World War II, the Elkan House served as a transit station for Jewish "Displaced Persons" who wanted to emigrate to Palestine or the USA. In 1996, the house – like many other houses of the former Jewish Quarter – was restored in accordance with heritage protection regulations and is now used as a residential and medical professionals' house. In the entrance area of the house, Gerhard Lacha installed a memorial plaque.