Audioguide Bethaus Storchengasse

On 21 November 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, the plaques remember Jewish life and its destruction by the Nazi regime. The station in front of the house at Storchengasse 21 is dedicated to the synagogue, which was located here until its destruction during the November pogroms. Due to its immediate proximity to other buildings, the synagogue was not burned down. In 1950, the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde received the building back. At this station, the eyewitnesses Anny Götzler, Stella Finkelstein, Eric Sanders, Haya Izhaki, and Ernst Stern illuminate the history of the synagogue, its destruction, and the use of the building by the Zionist youth movement Haschomer Hatzair.