Audioguide Auer Welsbach Park

On November 21, 2009, the "Audioguide Wien 15 Orte erinnern – Menschen erzählen. Die Geschichte einer jüdischen Vorstadtgemeinde" was presented. At fifteen stations in the district of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, plaques recall Jewish life and its destruction by the NS regime. The station at the Auer-Welsbach-Park presents narratives by eyewitnesses Katharina Merkel, Chava and Arie Feier, Chava Koppelman and Dita Segal. They recount their experiences in the parks of the district before and after the National Socialists came to power, for example about the National Socialists' inscriptions on park benches, which forbade Jews and Jewish women from sitting on the benches. The narratives can be heard by calling the telephone numbers listed on the plaque or via a website. The audioguide is a project of the association coobra (Herklotzgasse 21) and was created in collaboration with Radio ORANGE 94.0, the communications agency dieloop.at, as well as in cooperation with the district administration of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus. The initiative Herklotzgasse 21 has been addressing since 2007 – among other things with the exhibition "Das Dreieck meiner Kindheit" – the history of the Jewish population in the district.