Gymnasium named after Herta Reich with Sculpture

Gymnasium named after Herta Reich, who was born in Mürzzuschlag, with a sculpture. Herta Reich, born Eisler (1917–2012) had to leave Mürzzuschlag shortly after the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich. After a first attempt to flee to Belgium, she left in the autumn of 1939 with about 1000 other Austrian Jews from Vienna on Danube ships and stranded in the small Serbian Danube port of Kladovo. While almost all passengers fell into the hands of the National Socialists in April 1941 and were murdered, she managed to escape. Finally, in June 1944, she succeeded in reaching Palestine.