Memorial Plaque Aron Menczer

On 9 November 2011, a memorial plaque was unveiled in front of the house at Marc-Aurel-Straße 5 in the 1st District, commemorating the educator Aron Menczer. Menczer was active from 1938 to 1941 for the Vienna Youth Aliyah School 'Jual'. The Youth Aliyah was a Zionist organization that brought numerous Jewish children abroad in order to protect them from being murdered by the National Socialists. In 1942, Menczer was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto and later to the extermination camp Auschwitz, where he was murdered in 1943. The plaque was designed by Alexander Kubik; it consists of a marble block from Israel framed in metal.