Hörsaal im Diözesanhaus Klagenfurt/Celovec named after Josef Pollak

In the Diözesanhaus Klagenfurt, seven rooms were named after people who were murdered by the National Socialists due to their Christian beliefs in 2014. A plaque with the biography of the person after whom the room is named is attached in front of the rooms. Room 2, the lecture hall, in the Diözesanhaus is named "Josef Pollak". Josef Pollak was born in 1874 in Tržiž, Slovenia. He worked as a priest in Slovenia and in the USA before he began his service in Carinthia. Josef Pollak continued to maintain contacts with his Slovenian homeland and listened to foreign radio programs, which were strictly forbidden under National Socialism. When he refused to ring the church bells on the occasion of the victory over Poland in October 1939, he was imprisoned. Due to "incitement of the people and state hostility", he was deported to the concentration camp Sachsenhausen/Oranienburg and murdered there on 24 July 1940.