Memorial Wall Faculty of Chemistry

The Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Vienna remembers the chemist Univ. Prof. Dr. Jacques Pollak, who died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, the two university assistants Dr. Kurt Horeischy and Dr. Hans Vollmar, who were shot in the Faculty of Chemistry building, with a memorial wall in the foyer of the Faculty building at Währinger Straße 42. The memorial wall is also dedicated to all teachers and students of chemistry at the University of Vienna who were persecuted, expelled, or murdered during the time of National Socialist rule due to racist or political reasons. The artistic realization was carried out by Bele Marx & Gilles Mussard, who responded to an older memorial sign for Kurt Horeischy and Hans Vollmar with their intervention and addressed previous omissions in the academic culture of remembrance.