Gedenken at the Jewish Students of the HAK Klagenfurt/Celovec

The discovery of a document in the school archive about the exclusion of Jewish students from classes in 1938 was the occasion for a school project at the Klagenfurt Commercial Academy. The project class researched the Jewish students of the school and found out that in total 50 Jewish children attended the school before 1938. The aim was to learn as much as possible about the individual people and their fate under National Socialism. At least three former Jewish students of the Klagenfurt HAK were murdered during National Socialism. As a conclusion to the project, the Carinthian artist Bella Ban created in 2008 a memorial installation in the school's auditorium, consisting of a total of four picture frames under the motto „tatort klagenfurt (1938-1945)“. In two frames, the names, birth and death dates of the former students are listed, with the three who were murdered by the Nazis being marked specifically.