Memorial Plate "Reason for Dismissal: Non-Aryan" - Alfred-Wunsch-Hof

A commemorative plaque for Jewish tenants who had been expelled by the National Socialists from the municipal housing in 1938 was unveiled on 22 September 1999 as part of the project "Kündigungsgrund: 'Nichtarier'" at the municipal housing complex Lorystraße 36-38 in the district of Simmering. The plaque was funded by the Volkshochschule Simmering and the Kulturverein Simmering. The project "Kündigungsgrund: 'Nichtarier'" was carried out by the Volkshochschule Simmering under the leadership of Walter Schuster. The research into the expulsion of Jewish tenants from the Viennese municipal housing under National Socialism in the years 1938 and 1939 was initiated by Herbert Exenberger, an archivist, librarian and employee at the Documentation Center of the Austrian Resistance. He published the study "Kündigungsgrund Nichtarier. The Expulsion of Jewish Tenants from Viennese Municipal Housing in the Years 1938 and 1939" together with Johann Koß and Brigitte Ungar-Klein in 1996. In 1999, the exhibition "Kündigungsgrund Nichtarier" was shown in the Vienna Library 11. The project was concluded with a "historical walk" through Simmering, during which five commemorative plaques at municipal housing buildings were unveiled. Fritz Duschner (born 26 June 1897) was a prisoner in the concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald in the years 1938 and 1939. On 20 October 1939, he was deported to Nisko. From there, he managed to escape to the Soviet Union. His traces disappear in the transit camp Suchobeywodnaja Gorkowskaja oblast (region Gorki, today Nischnij Nowhorod). Susanne Duschner (born 27 June 1900) was deported with her son Josef Duschner (born 16 January 1927) to Minsk on 5 October 1942. Both were murdered. Fritz and Susanne Duschner had lived in the Alfons-Petzold-Hof on floor 2, door 8.