"Memorial Pathway"
Legend:
Central Design: A stylized path winding through four stations (one per subcategory).
Symbols at each station:
Central Design: A stylized path winding through four stations (one per subcategory).
Symbols at each station:
- Politically Persecuted – Stylized leaf with a torn corner (symbolizing lost freedom).
- Religiously/Racially Persecuted – Broken Star of David / Bible / neutral symbol for religious diversity.
- Imprisoned and Murdered – Abstract prison cell door with an open latch (not overly brutal but evocative).
- Life Stories and Testimonies – Open book with flying pages hinting at faces or names.
Persecuted and Victims
The era of National Socialism was marked by exclusion, persecution, and violence against those who did not conform to the regime’s ideology — for political, religious, racial, or other reasons. In Hall in Tirol, too, citizens were disenfranchised, driven out, imprisoned, or killed. This chapter is dedicated to their fates.
Through four subcategories, we tell the stories of political prisoners, of people persecuted for their religion or ethnicity — including Jewish families and Jehovah’s Witnesses — of those who were incarcerated or murdered, and of individual life stories and testimonies.
These insights are intended to commemorate the suffering that occurred and to serve as a call for humanity, compassion, and responsibility — especially for younger people who wish to learn more about this period.
Through four subcategories, we tell the stories of political prisoners, of people persecuted for their religion or ethnicity — including Jewish families and Jehovah’s Witnesses — of those who were incarcerated or murdered, and of individual life stories and testimonies.
These insights are intended to commemorate the suffering that occurred and to serve as a call for humanity, compassion, and responsibility — especially for younger people who wish to learn more about this period.
Commemorating the November Pogroms of 1938: The Destruction of the Innsbruck Synagogue – A Lie and its Unmasking
Every year in November, we are called upon to remember the terrible events of the Pogrom Night of 1938. It marked the beginning of the open, violent persecution of the Jewish population, which culminated in the Holocaust. Remembrance thrives on concrete stories. One of these stories took place in Innsbruck, documented by a perfidious newspaper article and the truth of an eyewitness.
On November 11, 1938, one day after the actual "Reich Pogrom Night," the following article appeared in the Innsbrucker Nachrichten, distorting the events and presenting them as "public fury":
On November 11, 1938, one day after the actual "Reich Pogrom Night," the following article appeared in the Innsbrucker Nachrichten, distorting the events and presenting them as "public fury":