Memorial Plaque for Victims of National Socialism from the Community of the Reformed City Church

On October 31, 2005, a memorial plaque was unveiled in the Reformed City Church at Dorotheergasse 16. It remembers members of the parish community who were murdered in concentration camps during the National Socialist era. The plaque specifically highlights the pastor of the Reformed Hungarians in Vienna, Zsigmond Varga, as well as the couple Ernst Pollak and Gisela Pollak. Zsigmond Varga resisted National Socialism through his sermons and was therefore arrested by the Gestapo on October 19, 1944, and was transferred to Mauthausen in early February 1945, and finally to Gusen. He died there on March 5, 1945. Ernst and Gisela Pollak were deported to Theresienstadt on June 18, 1942. Ernst Pollak was murdered there on October 31, 1942. Gis. Pollak was murdered there on September 13, 1942.