Freedom Fighters Memorial

The Freedom Fighters Memorial at the Atzgersdorfer Cemetery commemorates 23 resistance fighters and one female resistance fighter. Their names can be read on two plaques next to a relief depicting two clenched fists. The memorial honors them as "fallen for the freedom of Austria." Designed by sculptor Franz Pixner, the memorial was unveiled on November 1, 1954. The memorial was funded by the KPÖ. In 2023, the city of Vienna designated the Freedom Fighters Memorial as a Historical Grave and took over its preservation. The biographies of the people listed on the memorial are very different; for example, Karl Schaffhauser was already killed by a National Socialist on August 21, 1932. As the only woman honored by the memorial, Therese Klostermann is recognized, who was sentenced to death in November 1943 for "preparation for high treason" and was executed on March 13, 1944, at the Provincial Court in Vienna.