Memorial for murdered Lovara, Sinti and Roma

The association Kulturraum 10 erected in 1999 in the Barankapark-Hellerwiese a glass memorial plaque for all Lovara, Sinti and Roma who the NS regime deported in 1941 from here to concentration camps, where they were murdered. In addition, the association Kulturraum planted a red chestnut tree. The memorial initiative was significantly participated in by Mongo Stojka, who himself had survived several concentration camps. The memorial plaque became in the following years a target of racist destructive rage, in 2002 it was completely destroyed. A new construction of the memorial site took place in 2004 by the association Kulturraum 10 and the Austrian Roma cultural association. The glass memorial plaque was replaced by a red base stone and a standing metal plate with the dedication inscription.