Gedenktafel Jura Soyfer - GRG 3

On October 8, 1999, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the façade of Bundesrealgymnasium 3 in Hagenmüllergasse 30 in the 3rd district. It commemorates the poet Jura Soyfer, who graduated from this school in 1931. In 1937, he was arrested as a political opponent of the Austrofascist regime and spent three months in prison. After the National Socialists seized power, Soyfer was threatened by the regime's antisemitic policies. During an attempt to flee to Switzerland, he was arrested in Vorarlberg, sent to the concentration camp Dachau, and later deported to the concentration camp Buchenwald, where he died of typhus in 1939. The plaque was funded by the school community. The inscription on the plaque quotes the "Song of the Earth," which Soyfer composed in 1936.