Bust of Hans Przibram

On June 12, 2015, a bust of Hans Przibram was unveiled at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). A memorial plaque next to the bust recalls the antisemitic persecution of the zoologist by the NS regime and his death in the Ghetto/KZ Theresienstadt. The bust, created in 1933 by the sculptor André Roder (1900–1959), had already been donated in 1947 by Hans Przibram's brother, the physicist Karl Przibram. The original has been in the archives of the ÖAW since 2015, with a duplicate on display. At the same time, the ÖAW launched a virtual memorial book for the victims of National Socialism at the ÖAW, edited by the historian Heidemarie Uhl and the historian Johannes Feichtinger.