Audioguide Café Palmhof

On November 21, 2009, the "Audioguide Vienna 15 Places Remember – People Tell. The History of a Jewish Neighbourhood Community" was presented. At fifteen stations in the district of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, plaques recall Jewish life and its destruction by the NS regime. At the station on Mariahilfer Straße 135, there was the Café Palmhof. In 1934, illegal National Socialists carried out two terrorist attacks on the café. After the national socialist takeover in 1938, the café was "arisiert" and the owner Otto Pollak was deported to the concentration camp Theresienstadt. Unlike his brother and business partner Karl, who was murdered in Auschwitz, Otto Pollak survived the NS regime. Here you can hear the recollections of eyewitnesses Edith Jäger and Helga Pollak about the café and its owner, Helga's father Otto Pollak.