Five Memorials for Murdered Home Residents

On October 18, 1998, five individual memorial stones were laid in a row in front of the residential house at Schmelzgasse 9 in the second district. They commemorate residents and residents of the house who were persecuted and murdered by the NS regime as Jews. This was one of the first memory markers embedded in the city ground, designed in a similar fashion to the Stolpersteine by Günter Demnig. The initiative was taken by Peter Mlczoch from the Gebietsbetreuung Leopoldstadt and Karmeliterviertel, who also implemented the project. It was financed by anonymous private sponsors. The unveiling took place within the framework of the exhibition „Zerstörte Kultur“ in the presence of District Mayor Heinz Weißmann, Chief Rabbi Paul Chaim Eisenberg, and the witnesses Herbert Kelman and Pierre Genée.