Memorial Plate Wohnhaus Jura Soyfer

The memorial plaque commemorates the poet Jura Soyfer, who died in the Buchenwald concentration camp. He was arrested in 1937 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, sent to the Dachau concentration camp, and later to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he died in 1939 from typhus. The memorial plaque was installed on March 2, 1989, on the façade of the building at Kinderspitalgasse 10 in the 9th district. It is a residential house of Jura Soyfer. The memorial plaque was funded by the cultural association Alsergrund - "Unser 9".