Gedenktafel Karl Gröger

The memorial plaque for the resistance fighter Karl Gröger was installed in 1962 within the Döblinger Gymnasium at Gymnasiumstraße 83. The plaque was funded by Austrian and Dutch schoolmates as well as former Austrian and Dutch resistance fighters. The Dutch ambassador in Vienna, H. F. Eschauzier, participated in the opening ceremony. Next to the plaque is a certificate from the Yad Vashem Memorial Site, which refers to Gröger as "Righteous Among the Nations". Karl Gröger fled from Vienna to Amsterdam in 1938, where he joined a resistance group. He was involved in an attack on the Amsterdam population registry office, whose aim was the destruction of records used for the deportation of Jews. Gröger was arrested on April 8, 1943, and was tried by a court martial with 13 other members of the resistance group and sentenced to death. On July 1, 1943, Karl Gröger was shot. In 1984, Karl Gröger was awarded the Resistance Merit Cross by the Netherlands, and in 1986, Yad Vashen honored him as "Righteous Among the Nations".