Gedenktafel Viktor Frankl

At the Viktor-Frankl-Hof in Zirkusgasse 52, a memorial plaque for the namesake of the residential complex, Viktor Emil Frankl, was installed by Wiener Wohnen on May 21, 1999. After the National Socialists seized power, Viktor Frankl directed the Neurological Ward at the Rothschild Hospital between 1940 and 1942, where exclusively Jewish patients were treated. He sabotaged the National Socialist-ordered murder of "mentally ill" people by issuing false diagnoses in his medical reports. In September 1942, Viktor Frankl was arrested together with his wife Tilly and deported to Theresienstadt, where his father died of exhaustion. In 1944, Viktor and Tilly Frankl were deported to the concentration camp Auschwitz. His mother was murdered in Auschwitz. His wife Tilly was sent to the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, where she died at the age of 24. Viktor Frankl survived the further transport to a subcamp of the concentration camp Dachau and was liberated by US troops on April 27, 1945.