Memorial Gestapo-Anhaltelager Karajangasse

In 1999, the memorial site Karajangasse at the Brigittenauer Gymnasium was reopened. There, two permanent exhibitions can be seen: the exhibition "As Schools Became Prisons," designed by students of the Gymnasium, and "The Lost Island," which was created by the Augarten Action Radius regarding the history of the local Jewish community. The memorial site commemorates the many Jewish women and men as well as political opponents of National Socialism who were crowded together in 1938 in the holding facility of the Gestapo, which was located in the school, and then deported to the concentration camp Dachau. It also documents the results of a school project on the fate of the students expelled from the Gymnasium in 1938. 24 of them were murdered by the NS regime. Within the framework of a "Sparkling Science" project, the memorial site was expanded with regard to a multi-ethnically composed student body.