Memorial Plaque for 69 NS-Euthanasie Victims of the St. Josef Institute at the Parish Church of Mils

As part of the mass murder of people with intellectual disabilities and mental illnesses, 67 patients of the St. Josef-Institute in Mils bei Innsbruck were taken by train to the railway station in Hall. They were transferred to the killing facility Hartheim near Linz on 29.5.1941 together with two other nursing residents of the institute, who had been requested by Ernst Klebelsberg, the director of the Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Hall. In 1998, the superior of the St. Josef-Institute, Sr. Maria Heinrika Aichner, approached Mayor Maria Unterberger regarding a memorial plaque for the residents murdered during the NS period and found support in the municipal council. On the occasion of the "Schützenjahrtage" on 8.11.1998, the memorial plaque was inaugurated on the south wall of the parish church in Mils bei Innsbruck.