Memorial Plaque Destruction Jewish Beth House and Hebrew Language School

On 30 September 2004, a memorial plaque was unveiled in front of the house at Schottenfeldgasse 60, commemorating the expelled Jews and Jewish women from the district of Neubau, as well as the Jewish prayer house of the Jewish Association Neubau Chewra Binjon Chudosch, which was located here and was destroyed by the Nazis during the November Pogroms. The initiators did not receive permission from the building owner to install a memorial plaque on the façade. Therefore, with the approval of the city of Vienna, the installation took place several centimeters in front of the building, which had not been restituted, on public ground. The plaque consists of a steel plate, into which the text was engraved. When light falls on it, the text becomes visible on the building façade. Already in 1988, there were efforts to erect a memorial plaque on the façade of the house, but the building owner did not agree.