Memorial Stone for Georgy Halpern

On 3 April 2017, journalist Beate Klarsfeld and cultural councillor Andreas Mailath-Pokorny unveiled a memorial stone in front of number 29 Rotenturmstraße. Here lived until 1939 Georgy Halpern, who, together with six other Jewish children from Vienna, was deported from the Izieu Children's Home (France) to Auschwitz.

The children's rescue organization Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) brought Jewish children from all over Europe, whose parents had been deported by the Nazis, to safety in the children's home La Maison d'Izieu in eastern France. Although the staff tried to keep the children's origins secret, on 6 April 1944, on orders from Klaus Barbie, the head of the Gestapo in Lyon, all 44 Jewish children and young people aged between 5 and 17 years, as well as seven educators, were arrested by the Gestapo and soldiers of the Wehrmacht. 42 children and five adults were deported from Lyon via the transit camp Drancy to Auschwitz-Birkenau and immediately murdered. Miron Zlatin, the director of the children's home, and two young people were shot in Reval (today Tallinn) in Estonia. Léa Feldblum, a caregiver, was the only one to survive.