6000 x 5265 px | 50,8 x 44,6 cm | 20 x 17,6 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
22 luglio 2009
Ubicazione:
Judenplatz, Vienna, Austria
Altre informazioni:
The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (German: Mahnmal für die 65.000 ermordeten österreichischen Juden und Jüdinnen der Shoah) also known as the Nameless Library stands in Judenplatz in the first district of Vienna. It is the central memorial for the Austrian victims of the Holocaust and was designed by the British artist Rachel Whiteread. The memorial began with an initiative of Simon Wiesenthal. He began the commission for a memorial dedicated especially to the Jewish victims of Nazi fascism in Austria. It was built by the city of Vienna under the Mayor Michael Häupl, after Rachel Whiteread's design was chosen unanimously by an international jury under the leadership of the architect Hans Hollein. The memorial was unveiled on 25 October 2000. The memorial is a steel and concrete construction with a base measuring 10 x 7 meters and a height of 3.8 meters.[2] The outside surfaces of the volume are cast library shelves turned inside out. The spines of the books are facing inwards and are not visible, therefore the titles of the volumes are unknown and the content of the books remains unrevealed. The shelves of the memorial appear to hold endless copies of the same edition, which stand for the vast number of the victims. Although no texts are found on the cast books, two texts are engraved on the base of the memorial. On the concrete floor before the locked double doors is a text in German, Hebrew, and English, that points out the crime of The Holocaust and the estimated number of Austrian victims: Zum Gedenken an die mehr als 65 000 österreichischenJuden, die in der Zeit von 1938 bis 1945 von denNationalsozia listen ermordet wurden.זכר למעלה מ-65.000 יהודים אוסטרייםשנרצחו בשנים 1945-1938.ע''י הפושעים הנציונלסוציאליסטיים ימ''שIn commemoration of more than 65, 000 Austrian Jewswho were killed by the Nazis between1938 and 1945.
