Else-Feldmann-Promenade

The promenade in the 21st district was named after Else Feldmann by the Cultural and Science Committee on November 7, 2011. Else Feldmann was a writer and journalist in Vienna. After the takeover by the National Socialists, she lost all her employment opportunities in March 1938 as a Jew. The NS regime placed her works on the "List of harmful and undesirable literature". After being evicted from her community residence in June 1938, she was registered at various addresses in Vienna and lived under precarious conditions. On June 14, 1942, she was deported to the extermination camp Sobibór in German-occupied Poland and murdered a few days later in a gas chamber.