Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 09:46AM 
A new exhibit at the Jewish Museum Vienna explores a series of portraits of important Jewish personalities of the twentieth century created by Andy Warhol in 1980.
Please visit the Museum's website for more information.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 02:56PM 
Photo: Press & Information Service of the Austrian Federal PresidentAustrian Federal President Dr. Heinz Fischer (right) received Oskar Deutsch, newly elected president of the Austrian Jewish Community, for an inaugural visit on March 13, 2012.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 11:05AM Wiener Zeitung, March 12, 2012. Translation.
German original: http://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/panorama/chronik/443014_Faymann-sagt-finanzielle-Absicherung-fuer-Gedenkdienste-zu.html
Vienna. “The victims are the only ones who have the right to forget”. With these words Federal Chancellor Werner Faymann began his speech on the occasion of the general assembly of the Austrian Friends of Yad Vashem. Barbara Prammer, President of the National Council, and Honorary President of the Austrian Friends of Yad Vashem since 2010, had invited them to the Austrian Parliament. Keynote speakers besides Mr. Faymann included Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger, as well as Avner Shalef, who travelled from Jerusalem to Vienna and has served as the chairman of Yad Vashem in Israel for 19 years.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 at 10:10AM Vice chancellor Spindelegger expresses his thanks to Austrian Friends of Yad Vashem for their commitment.
Vienna, March 12, 2012 – “Every well – intentioned person who, like me, visited Yad Vashem, understands that fighting anti-Semitism, hatred and prejudice is imperative. This is consistent with the essential message of Yad Vashem, and I may use this occasion to thank all of you, who foster and advance the mission of Yad Vashem in Austria.”
Vice chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger directed these clear words at the General Assembly of the Austrian Friends of Yad Vashem on March 12,, which marks the 74th anniversary of the rise to power of the National Socialists in Austria. Yad Vashem is Israel’s national memorial site for the remembrance of the persecution and assassination of six million Jews during the Holocaust.
Monday, March 5, 2012 at 07:53PM | film screening, Washington, DC
co-sponsored by the Washington Jewish Film Festival
Vielleicht in einem anderen Leben / In another Lifetime
April 1945: a group of Hungarian Jews is led through an Austrian village. They are supposed to go to Mauthausen, but have to stop in the village for a few days. Unable to proceed, the Jews are locked into barn of a local family. Affected by their suffering, the owner of the barn Mrs. Fasching and her Farmhand Poldi take pity on the Jews and bring them food and water. Among the group of captivated Jews is Lou Gandolf, an opera singer. He offers to mount an operetta as a thank you gesture for Mrs. Fasching, which doesn't sit too well with Mr. Fasching and the rest of the village.