Holocaust remembrance

For Wiesenthal, who lost most of his family (89 relatives) in the Holocaust, personal and communal forms of remembrance were of great importance. The “Linz Collection”, for example, testifies that he kept close contact with survivors from his hometown, Buczacz, in Galicia. Wiesenthal even published a short article in the Buczacz Yizkor book dedicated to the memory of the community. He also had plans to build a mausoleum in memory of all Holocaust victims at Yad Vashem in Israel. To this end, he drafted detailed plans for the building and sent urns containing the ashes of Jewish victims from various concentration and labour camps in Austria to the recently established State of Israel.