Ceija-Stojka-Platz (Park, Ost)

The square in front of the Altlerchenfelder Church was named after the writer and artist Ceija Stojka on June 2, 2014. She belonged to the Lovara-Roma community and was a child victim of racism and anti-Roma sentiment by the National Socialists. She was deported with most of her family to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, from there to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and finally to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She survived as one of the few Roma from Austria the persecution by the NS regime. Ceija Stojka published among other works "Wir leben im Verborgenen", in which she drew attention to the fate of the Roma during NS rule.