Installation for Jewish Victims of National Socialism

On October 19, 2017, the memorial installation "Herminengasse" was unveiled at the U-Bahn station Schottenring, in the exit "Herminengasse", which leads into the district of Leopoldstadt. It commemorates those approximately 800 Jewish victims of National Socialism who had lived most recently in Herminengasse. The design of the installation was created by the artist Michaela Melián and was realized in collaboration with Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien (KÖR) and the Vienna Transport Company. The basis for the installation is a scientific research project, for which the historian Tina Walzer was commissioned. Within the installation, lines representing individual fates run from the houses in Herminengasse to the concentration camps and trace the paths of deportation and murder. The chosen date for the opening of the installation has symbolic significance – on October 19, 1941, the ninth deportation with around 1,000 people from the Aspangbahnhof to the Litzmannstadt Ghetto took place.