Gedenktafel Leon Zelman

On July 11, 2008, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the façade of the Palais Epstein at Dr.-Karl-Renner-Ring 1 in the 1st district, commemorating the Jewish publicist Leon Zelman, who had died one year earlier. Leon Zelman survived the deportation of his Jewish family from Poland in 1940 into the ghetto, was deported to the Łódź ghetto, from there to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and from there to the Ebensee concentration camp, an extermination camp of Mauthausen. Leon Zelman survived. After liberation, Zelman moved to Vienna and in 1980 founded, together with other actors, the Jewish Welcome Service Vienna, which invited survivors of the Shoah to visit their former hometown, Vienna. The plaque was donated by the Austrian Parliament and the City of Vienna.