Memorial Plaque Bronislaw Huberman

On 6 May 2022, a memorial plaque was unveiled on the entrance façade of Hetzendorf Castle. It commemorates the musician and humanist Bronislaw Huberman. The Jewish-Polish musician lived and worked in Hetzendorf Castle from 1926 to 1936. He was an outstanding violin virtuoso and led a master class at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. He is regarded as an early advocate of a united Europe. His founding of the Palestine Orchestra, later known as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra from 1947 onwards, is also described as visionary. Huberman saved the lives of numerous Jewish musicians and their families and protected them from the Holocaust by enabling them to travel to Palestine through engagements in his orchestra.