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Places of Interest in Vienna
Judenplatz Museum
(Museum Judenplatz)
Judenplatz 8, A-1010 Wien, Tel: 535 04 31, Website: www.jmw.at, U-Bahn: Herrengasse
Holocaust Memorial
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The Judenplatz Museum was opened in October 2000, with the aim of giving visitors a glimpse of Jewish life in medieval Vienna. Within the museum are the remains of the Synagogue that once stood here before being destroyed by fire in 1421. Other items relate to the Jewish religious and cultural life of the period.
Outside the museum, in the centre of the square itself, stands a new Holocaust memorial which was unveiled at the same time as the museum was opened. The monument, which takes the form of a mausoleum, was designed by the Briton Rachel Whitehead and incorporates concrete cast books, each inscribed with the names of the World War II death camps.
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