Gedenktafel Marie Jahoda

On January 17, 2003, a memorial plaque was unveiled inside the Marie-Jahoda School in Herbststraße 86, commemorating the Jewish social psychologist and socialist Marie Jahoda. The unveiling of the plaque coincided with the renaming of the elementary school in honor of the pioneer of empirical social research. Jahoda, who was actively involved in the antifascist resistance during Austrofascism, was forcibly emigrated to Great Britain after a short period of imprisonment in 1937, thereby escaping further persecution by the Austrofascist and later National Socialist regime. In her British exile, she participated in the fight against NS-Germany, for example as an editor of the station of the European Revolution and of the station Radio Rotes Wien. The plaque, donated by the school, featuring a portrait of Marie Jahoda, was unveiled by Cultural Affairs Commissioner Andreas Mailath-Pokorny. The plaque was a gift from the Steinwerkstätte Kernmayr in Ottakring. Alongside the memorial plaque, there are two information plaques explaining the biography of Maria Jahoda and listing her most important works. The renaming of the school and the installation of the plaques were embedded in a multi-year school project.