Wiesenthal, who has lived in the city since the 1940s, stated that it was time for Vienna to construct a memorial to the 65,000 Viennese Jews deported and murdered during the Holocaust.

A controversy over this ancient synagogue held up the memorial for years. It started in December 1994 with an impassioned letter that Wiesenthal wrote to Vienna’s mayor, Michael Haeupl.

VIENNA - Austria on Tuesday opened its first public memorial listing the names of all 64,440 Austrian Jews killed in the Holocaust. The country where Adolf Hitler was born was annexed by Nazi ...

The two attackers were able to enter the 155-year old synagogue as they disguised themselves as Jews. After the shooting began, the terrorist started a shootout with two wounded police officers.

November 9 and 10, however, will be 80 years since the Novemberpogrom or Kristallnacht, when all but one of Vienna’s synagogues and houses of prayer were destroyed.

The synagogue is the largest in Europe, and the second largest in the world. Built in 1859, this massive house of worship can hold 3,000 people and remains a thriving center of Jewish life. In back is ...

As our British Airways jet approached Vienna, ... Vienna, with 182,000 Jews (the third-largest Jewish community in Europe), had 59 synagogues, ... But Austria now has a memorial of sorts made of ...

A memorial service for the late President John F. Kennedy was held in Vienna’s main synagogue today in the presence of Austrian Chancellor Alfons Gorbach, Cabinet ministers, members of the ...