Memorial space for Holocaust victims in the City Temple

On 9 November 2002, the anniversary of the November Pogroms of 1938, the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG) opened a memorial room in the entrance hall of the city temple at Seitenstettengasse 4 in the 1st District, for the 65,000 Austrian victims of the Shoah who were persecuted, deported, and murdered during the Nazi regime.

The names of 62,400 murdered Jewish women and men, ascertained by the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance, are engraved on large black slate panels. The panels are arranged in book form around a column. The broken granite column represents the fate of Jewish women and men in the 20th century. It is continued by a glass column in the shape of a cone. The downward-pointing tip symbolizes the new beginning after the Shoah. The architectural design of the memorial room is by Thomas Feiger. During the commemorative ceremony on 9 November 2002, Chief Rabbi Paul Chaim Eisenberg stated that the memorial site is a "symbolic burial place" for all Austrian Jews murdered by the Nazis. It stands for the 65,000 individual fates, while the memorial at Judenplatz symbolizes the totality of the Holocaust.