Memorial to the Book Burning on April 30, 1938 in the Unipark

In the inner courtyard of the Unipark Library is located the memorial to the book burning. A first commemoration of the book burning on 30 April 1938, during which approximately 1,200 books by Jewish, clerical, and Christian-social authors were burned, was initiated by the Salzburg Authors' Group in 1987. Thirty years later, the second major commemorative event took place. The demands to permanently publicly remember the book burning have since become louder. A first reaction of the city government to these demands was the commemorative plaque unveiled at the St. Michael's Church in 2011. The unveiling of the memorial at the Unipark was another step, which was set on 13 January 2012. Finally, a memorial was unveiled at the Residenzplatz on 30 April 2018. However, this memorial is also not located at the historical site of the book burning.