Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
Purpose	Holocaust Memorial
Founder and Chairman	Andreas Maislinger Andreas Maislinger Andreas Maislinger is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.- Studying and learning :...
	Andreas Maislinger Andreas Maislinger Andreas Maislinger is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.- Studying and learning :...  (left) with Branko Lustig Branko Lustig Branko Lustig is a prominent Croatian Jewish film producer. He is the only person born in Croatia to have won two Academy Awards.-Early life:...  (right)
Office	Innsbruck Innsbruck - Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus... , Tirol Tyrol (state) Tyrol is a state or Bundesland, located in the west of Austria. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical region of Tyrol.The state is split into two parts–called North Tyrol and East Tyrol–by a -wide strip of land where the state of Salzburg borders directly on the Italian province of... , Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
Foundation	1992, Innsbruck

The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service (AHMS) is an alternative to Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

's compulsory national military service / alternative service founded in 1992. Since 1998 it is part of the Austrian Service Abroad

Austrian Service Abroad

Austrian Service Abroad is a non-profit initiative and was founded in 1998 by Andreas Maislinger and Andreas Hörtnagl. Since 2001 Michael Prochazka is part of the managing committee.-General Information:...

. AHMS representatives serve at major Holocaust

The Holocaust

The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...

 memorial institutions in 23 countries worldwide.

History

Prehistory

The Political Scientist from Innsbruck and scientological leader of the Braunauer Zeitgeschichte - Tage Andreas Maislinger
On the 10th of October 1980 he received on the invitation from Anton Pelinka the possibility to present his “civilian service in Auschwitz” in the of Dolores Bauer’s ORF-broadcast “Kreuzverhör”. Federal President Rudolf Kirchsläger declined his concept with the statement “An Austrian has nothing to atone in Auschwitz”. Later Kirschläger accredited the “positive achievement” of the “accomplished holocaust memorial service” of Andreas Maislinger.
1980/81 Maislinger was with Joachim Schlör volunteer in the Poland seminar paper of the German Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienst, which is led by Volker von Törne and Christoph Heubner. In the Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau he supervised the German juvenile group. After his return he was even more convinced to realize a similar programme in Austria. He was mainly supported by Simon Wiesenthal, Teddy Kollek, Ari Raht, Herbert Rosenkranz, Gerhard Röthler and Karl Pfeifer. One of the sons Röthlers had accomplished Holocaust Memorial Service and Karl Pfeifer puplished an interview in the IKG-Newspaper “Die GEMEINDE”.

Realisation

In May 1991 Andreas Maislinger received a letter of the Minister of Interior Franz Löschnak. He was informed that the Holocaust Memorial Service was permitted by the Austrian Government to be an alterative to the civilian service. The needed funds were supported by the Federal Ministry of Interior until a defined frame.

Superior Abroad Service - Development Association 2001

2001 under Minister of Interior Ernst Strasser a Service Abroad development association was established, which left the funds to independent sponsoring organizations, fore example the Austrian Service Abroad.

Acknowledgments

"As a former polish political prisoner of a fascistic Concentration Camp and historian of World War II, I want to take the honoring opportunity to speak in front of the high house. I want to thank all the young Austrians, which work so hard for the remembrance of the past. Here I specially think of the people lf the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance under the leadership of Prof. Wolfgang Neugebauer, the Austrian Camp Community Mauthausen, the Holocaust Memorial Service, und also the local initiatives of the communities Gusen, Langenstein und St. Georgen in Oberösterreich, the working circle for homeland-, memorial and history care."

Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

"I thank you for the information about the positive result of the from you accomplished holocaust memorial service."

Rudolf Krichshläger

"The holocaust memorial service is very impressive initiative."

Thomas Klestil

"I feel very close to this organization and I have great respect for the servants, because what they achieve is the right way for Austria – to look the past directly into the eyes and to do something against it. Not to say, we were the first victims."

Walter Kohn

"I often claimed there is no Austrian association which sends young people to Israel, like the German organization “Aktion Sühnezeichen”. It touched me to read there is now, thanks to your afford the possibility to perform the Austrian civilian service within the framework of the Holocaust Memorial Service."

Teddy Kollek

"I like to support and recommend the initiative Austrian Holocaust Service. It is a real service which can be and should be provided by young people."

Christoph Kardinal Schönborn

"Many people have no idea what those young Austrians achieve for them, that they straight up their backbones, so they can walk straight again, also myself, who belongs to this generation."

Dietmar Schönherr

"I consider the project Holocaust Memorial Service as a n important and valuable initative in the service of peace and the peoples communication."

Wolfgang Schüssel

"Holocaust Memorial Service is remembrance work, which is also a bridge between “Yesterdays World” and the modern and democratic Austria. It also is a reminder that also nowadays values like sense of responsibility and moral courage did not lose their importance."

Michael Spindelegger

"Each Generation has to be aware of the horror of the past, to be able to build a new world of peace and respect for the human rights. The project Holocaust Memorial Service serves this important challenge of sensitization in sense of the words “Never forget."

Franz Vranitzky

"I follow the works of the Holocaust Memorial Service in great interest and the organization has my full support."

Simon Wiesenthal

The Holocaust Memorial Service since 1992

Walter Gruggenberger (SPÖ), Andreas Hörtnagl (ÖVP) and Andreas Maislinger (independent) founded the association of the Holocaust Memorial Service in 1992. The association wanted to enhance Holocaust awareness, including its causes and consequences. The association is responsible for the assortment and care of social service volunteers before, during and after their service. The volunteers have the possibility to apply for one of the 20 partner organizations. In addition to that the role of the Austrians as offenders, victims and bystanders is very important. Also women have the possibility to provide a one year long holocaust memorial service as part of the European Voluntary Service (EVS). Female volunteers were sponsored for the first time in the year 2008 by the “Geschwister-Mezei-Fond”, which was created with the goal to give women the possibility to accomplish the holocaust memorial service under the same conditions as civilian servants.

Association “Never Forget” since 1994

The association provides positions on all in all 19 memorial sites in Germany and Poland. It distinguishes itself from other organizations because of the relatively uncomplicated process of the assignment and because it generally isn’t as run over as other associations. The association “Never Forget” takes an active part in youth work against forgetting and is involved in the organization of the Hermann Langbein Symposium – Ideologie und Wirklichkeit des Nationalsozialismus (Hermann Langbein Symposium – ideology and reality of National Socialism), which is taking place since more than ten years for further training of teachers.

Austrian Service Abroad since 1998

Andreas Maislinger and Andreas Hörtnagl were deselected as presidents of the Holcoaust Memorial Service. In 1998, after long debates with the board of directors of the organization, they founded the organization “Austrian Service Abroad”.

The Austrian Service Abroad is characterized due to its employees’ personal initiatives. It also holds the possibility for the volunteers to establish their own partner organization, which means a much bigger effort, but also more autonomy before their assignment. Therefore a big network over four continents and all in all 37 countries has been established since 1998. Since 2009 this network is supported by an International Board under the presidency of Ernst Florian Winter.

The Austrian Service Abroad offers in addition to the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service, the Austrian Social Service and the Austrian Peace Service.

Partner organizations

 Argentina

• • Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires
    Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
    
     – Centro de Atencion Integral a la Niñez y Adolescencia (1998)

 Australia

• Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
   - Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre
  Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre
  The Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Centre was founded in Melbourne in 1984 by Holocaust Survivors. Its mission is to commemorate the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945....
  
   (2007)
• Melbourne
  Melbourne
  Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
  
   - Jewish Museum of Australia
  Jewish Museum of Australia
  The Jewish Museum of Australia is a community museum, which aims to explore and share the Jewish experience in Australia and benefit Australia's diverse society...
  
   (2007)

 Austria

• Braunau am Inn
  Braunau am Inn
  Braunau am Inn is a town in the Innviertel region of Upper Austria , the north-western state of Austria. It lies about 90 km west of Linz and about 60 km north of Salzburg, on the border with the German state of Bavaria. The population in 2001 was 16,372...
  
   - House of Responsibility
  House of Responsibility
  The House of Responsibility is a concept to combine scientific engagement about past, present and future. The house is located in the upper-Austrian town of Braunau am Inn. The former tavern was a cultural center for the Nazi party during the Third Reich...
  
  

 Belgium

• Brussles – La Mémoire d'Auschwitz (1999)

 Brazil

• Petrópolis
  Petrópolis
  Petrópolis , also known as The Imperial City of Brazil, is a town in the state of Rio de Janeiro, about 65 km from the city of Rio de Janeiro....
  
   - Casa Stefan Zweig
  Casa Stefan Zweig
  The Casa Stefan Zweig is legally regarded as a private charitable organisation, which was founded in 2006 by a group of interested private donors, to establish a museum, that is dedicated to the author, in the last residence of Stefan Zweig and his wife in Petropolis .The house, in which Stefan...
  
   (2007)

 Kingdom of Bulgaria

• Sofia
  Sofia
  Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
  
   - Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria "Shalom" (2004)

 Canada

• Montreal
  Montreal
  Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
  
   - Holocaust Memorial Centre
  Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
  The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre is a museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, dedicated to Holocaust education and awareness. It was founded in 1979 by a group of Holocaust survivors and facilitated by the philanthropy of Steven Cummings...
  
   (1998)
• Montreal
  Montreal
  Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
  
   - Kleinmann Family Foundation Montreal (2002)
• Toronto
  Toronto
  Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
  
    - Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre / Hillel Canada (2010)

 Mainland China

• Harbin
  Harbin
  Harbin ; Manchu language: , Harbin; Russian: Харби́н Kharbin ), is the capital and largest city of Heilongjiang Province in Northeast China, lying on the southern bank of the Songhua River...
  
   - Harbin Jewish Research Center
  Harbin Jewish Research Center
  The Harbin Jewish Research Center is located in Harbin and was founded in April 2000 by the Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences.In 2003, the history and culture of the Jews of Harbin was approved as a new branch of science study at a provincial level...
  
   (planned)
• Shanghai
  Shanghai
  Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
  
   - Center of Jewish Studies
  Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai
  The Center for Jewish Studies Shanghai was established in 1988. It is a department of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Under the leadership of Dean Pan Guang CJSS has become the most influential research institute in China studying Judaism and Israeli affairs.The Center focuses its...
  
   (2005)

 Independent State of Croatia

• Jasenovac
  Jasenovac
  Jasenovac is a village and a municipality in Croatian Slavonia, in the southern part of the Sisak-Moslavina county at the confluence of the river Una into Sava.The name means "ash tree" or "ash forest" in Croatian, the area being ringed by such a forest....
  
   - Jasenovac concentration camp
  Jasenovac concentration camp
  Jasenovac concentration camp was the largest extermination camp in the Independent State of Croatia and occupied Yugoslavia during World War II...
  
   (planned)

 Czech Republic

• Prague
  Prague
  Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
  
   - Jewish Community of Prague (1998)

 Early Modern France

• Oradour
  Oradour-sur-Glane
  Oradour-sur-Glane is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company...
  
   - Centre de la Mémoire d'Oradour (2002)
• Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
   - Amicale de Mauthausen
  Amicale de Mauthausen
  The Amicale de Mauthausen is a French association in memory of the history of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.Shortly after the end of World War II, on 1 October 1945, the institution named l’Amicale des déportés politiques de la Résistance de Mauthausen et de ses kommandos dépendants was...
  
   (2008)
• Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
   - La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation
  La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation
  The Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation was founded on 17 October 1990 on the initiative of former French prime minister Michel Rocard and the former minister of the Interior...
  
   (1999)

 Germany

• Berlin
  Berlin
  Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
  
   - Jewish Museum Berlin
  Jewish Museum Berlin
  The Jewish Museum Berlin , in Berlin, Germany, covers two millennia of German Jewish history. It consists of two buildings. One is the old Kollegienhaus, a former courthouse, built in the 18th century. The other, a new addition specifically built for the museum, designed by world-renowned architect...
  
   (1999)
• Moringen
  Moringen
  Moringen is a town in the district Northeim, in the southern part of Lower Saxony, Germany. The town consists of the center Moringen and eight surrounding villages.-History:The town and its villages were founded over a thousand years ago....
  
   - Concentration Camp Memorial at Torhaus Moringen (1999)
• Munich
  Munich
  Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
  
   - Jewish Museum Munich
  Jewish Museum Munich
  The Jewish Museum Munich provides an overview of Munich’s Jewish history and is part of the city's new Jewish Center located at Sankt-Jakobs-Platz in Munich, Germany...
  
   (2008)

 United Kingdom

• London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
   - Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library
  Wiener Library
  The Wiener Library is the world's oldest institution devoted to the study of the Holocaust, its causes and legacies. Founded in 1933 as an information bureau that informed Jewish communities and governments worldwide about the persecution of the Jews under the Nazis, it was transformed into a...
  
   (1998)
• London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
   - The National Yad Vashem Charitable Trust (1999)

 Hungary

• Budapest
  Budapest
  Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
  
   - European Roma Rights Centre
  European Roma Rights Centre
  The European Roma Rights Centre is an international public interest law organisation engaging in a range of activities aimed at combating anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma. The approach of the ERRC involves, in particular, strategic litigation, international advocacy, research and...
  
   (2002)

 Israel

• Jerusalem - St. Vinzenz-Ein Karem (2001)
• Jerusalem - Yad Vashem
  Yad Vashem
  Yad Vashem is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament....
  
   (2001)
• Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot - Ghetto Fighters' House
  Ghetto Fighters' House
  The Ghetto Fighters' House , full name, Itzhak Katzenelson Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum and Study Center, was founded in 1949 by members of Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, a community of Holocaust survivors, among them fighters of the ghetto undergrounds and partisan units...
  
   (2008)

 Italy

• Como
  Como
  Como is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy.It is the administrative capital of the Province of Como....
  
   - Istituto di Storia Contemporanea "Pier Amato Perretta"(ISC) (2002)
• Milan
  Milan
  Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
  
   - Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea
  Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea
  The Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea is an independent cultural and historical institution in Milan, Italy, dedicated to promoting the study of the events, culture, and circumstances of the Jewish People in Italy in the context of modern times.The CDEC was founded in 1955 at the...
  
   (1999)
• Prato
  Prato
  Prato is a city and comune in Tuscany, Italy, the capital of the Province of Prato. The city is situated at the foot of Monte Retaia , the last peak in the Calvana chain. The lowest altitude in the comune is 32 m, near the Cascine di Tavola, and the highest is the peak of Monte Cantagrillo...
  
   - Museo della Deportazione
  Museo della Deportazione
  The Museo e Centro di Documentazione della Deportazione e Resistenza is a museum in Prato, central Italy, dedicated to the history of Fascism’s occurrence and rise to power in Italy....
  
   (2008)

 Lithuania

• Vilnius
  Vilnius
  Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania, and its largest city, with a population of 560,190 as of 2010. It is the seat of the Vilnius city municipality and of the Vilnius district municipality. It is also the capital of Vilnius County...
  
   – Jewish Museum

 Netherlands

• Amsterdam
  Amsterdam
  Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
  
   - United (2002) (2010)

 Norway

• Oslo
  Oslo
  Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
  
   - Jewish Community (2000)

 Poland

• Oświęcim
  Oswiecim
  Oświęcim is a town in the Lesser Poland province of southern Poland, situated west of Kraków, near the confluence of the rivers Vistula and Soła.- History :...
  
   - Auschwitz Jewish Center
  Auschwitz Jewish Center
  The Oświęcim Synagogue, also called the Auschwitz Synagogue, is the only active synagogue in the town of Oświęcim, Poland. The formal as well as pre-war name of the synagogue is Khevre Loymdei Mishnayos...
  
   (2004)
• Kraków
  Kraków
  Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
  
   - Judaica Foundation - Center For Jewish Culture
  Judaica Foundation - Center For Jewish Culture
  The Judaica Foundation located at ul. Meiselsa 17 street in Kraków, Poland, was created in 1991. The idea for the foundation was established already in the 1980s, influenced by the President of the Jewish community of Kraków...
  
   (1999)
• Kraków
  Kraków
  Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
  
   - Galicia Jewish Museum
  Galicia Jewish Museum
  The Galicia Jewish Museum is located in the historical Jewish district Kazimierz in Kraków, Poland. It focuses on the traces of Jewish life and culture that can still be found in the area of the historic Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia located in modern Poland.- History :The Museum was...
  
   (2010)
• Kraków
  Kraków
  Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
  
   - Polish Humanitarian Organisation
  Polish Humanitarian Organisation
  The Polish Humanitarian Action is a Polish non-governmental organisation which operates in Poland and other countries....
  
   (2004)
• Warsaw
  Warsaw
  Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
  
   - Jewish Museum Warsaw (2008)

 Russia

• Moscow
  Moscow
  Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
  
   - Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center
  Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center
  The Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center was founded in 1992 in Moscow and has since then been working on awareness raising of the Holocaust in the Russian society...
  
   (2000)

 Slovenia

• Ljubljana
  Ljubljana
  Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
  
   - National Museum of Contemporary History
  National Museum of Contemporary History
  National Museum of Contemporary History is in a museum in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is located in a mansion on the edge of Tivoli Park in the district of Šiška, traditionally known as the Cekin Mansion ....
  
   (2010)

 Sweden

• Uppsala
  Uppsala
  - Economy :Today Uppsala is well established in medical research and recognized for its leading position in biotechnology.*Abbott Medical Optics *GE Healthcare*Pfizer *Phadia, an offshoot of Pharmacia*Fresenius*Q-Med...
  
   - Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is an academic institute conducting research in Holocaust and genocide studies. It is a part of the Centre for Multiethnic Research of the Faculty of Philosophy and History at Uppsala University....
  
   (2008)
• Stockholm
  Stockholm
  Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...
  
   - Forum för levande historia (2009)

 Turkey

• Istanbul
  Istanbul
  Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
  
   - Jewish Museum Istanbul (planned)

 United States

• Chicago - Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
  Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
  The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is the main memorial and educational center for The Holocaust in the Midwestern United States...
  
   (2010)
• Detroit
  Detroit, Michigan
  Detroit is the major city among the primary cultural, financial, and transportation centers in the Metro Detroit area, a region of 5.2 million people. As the seat of Wayne County, the city of Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and serves as a major port on the Detroit River...
  
   - Holocaust Memorial Center
  Holocaust Memorial Center
  The Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan was the first institution of its kind in the United States .- History :...
  
   (1999)
• Houston
  Houston, Texas
  Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
  
   - Holocaust Museum Houston
  Holocaust Museum Houston
  The Holocaust Museum Houston, is located in Houston, Texas and was opened in 1996. The museum is located in the Houston Museum District.The museum is the fourth largest Holocaust memorial museum in the United States. The museum's mission is to make people aware of the dangers which prejudice,...
  
   (1999)
• Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
  
   - Simon Wiesenthal Center
  Simon Wiesenthal Center
  The Simon Wiesenthal Center , with headquarters in Los Angeles, California, was established in 1977 and named for Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter. According to its mission statement, it is "an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to repairing the world one step at a time...
  
   (1998)
• Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
  
   - Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
  Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
  The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is a renowned holocaust museum in Los Angeles, California.-History:The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is the oldest holocaust museum in the United States of America. In 1961 at Hollywood High School, a group of holocaust survivors taking English as a...
  
   (2007)
• Los Angeles
  Los Angeles, California
  Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
  
   - USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
  USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
  The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing the Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List...
  
   (1999)
• New Orleans
  New Orleans, Louisiana
  New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
  
   - National World War II Museum
  National World War II Museum
  The National World War II Museum, formerly known as the National D-Day Museum, is a museum located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana, at the corner of Andrew Higgins Boulevard and Magazine Street. It focuses on the contribution made by the United States to victory by the...
  
   (planned)
• New York
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
   - Museum of Jewish Heritage
  Museum of Jewish Heritage
  The Museum of Jewish Heritage, located in lower Manhattan, is a living memorial to those who perished in the Holocaust. The Museum honors those who died by celebrating their lives – cherishing the traditions that they embraced, examining their achievements and faith, and affirming the vibrant...
  
   (2000)
• New York
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
   - Anti Defamation League (2008)
• New York
  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
  
   - American Jewish Committee
  American Jewish Committee
  The American Jewish Committee was "founded in 1906 with the aim of rallying all sections of American Jewry to defend the rights of Jews all over the world...
  
   (2009)
• Reno
  Reno, Nevada
  Reno is the county seat of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. The city has a population of about 220,500 and is the most populous Nevada city outside of the Las Vegas metropolitan area...
  
   - Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Peace Studies (1999)
• Richmond
  Richmond, Virginia
  Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. It is an independent city and not part of any county. Richmond is the center of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Greater Richmond area...
  
   - Virginia Holocaust Museum
  Virginia Holocaust Museum
  The Virginia Holocaust Museum is a Virginia museum dedicated to depicting the Holocaust as experienced by its victims. A main part of the exhibition is about the family story of Holocaust survivor Jay M. Ipson.-History:...
  
   (1999)
• San Francisco
  San Francisco, California
  San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
  
   - Holocaust Center of Northern California
  Holocaust Center of Northern California
  The Holocaust Center of Northern California is a non-profit organization formed to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust never be forgotten...
  
   (1999)
• St. Petersburg
  St. Petersburg, Florida
  St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. It is known as a vacation destination for both American and foreign tourists. As of 2008, the population estimate by the U.S. Census Bureau is 245,314, making St...
  
   - The Florida Holocaust Museum
  Florida Holocaust Museum
  The Florida Holocaust Museum is a Holocaust museum located at 55 5th Street South in St. Petersburg, Florida. Formerly known as the Holocaust Center, the museum officially changed to its current name in 1999. Founded in 1992, it moved to its current location in 1998...
  
   (1999)

Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award

Andreas Maislinger also initiated the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award

Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award

The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award was founded by the Austrian Service Abroad in 2006.- Meaning :The prize is annually conferred on a person who has shown special endeavors for the memory of the Shoa.- Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service :...

 (AHMA), rewarding people who actively contribute to the remembrance of the Holocaust. On October 17, 2006 the Chinese

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

 historian Pan Guang

Pan Guang

thumb|150px|right|Dr. Pan GuangPan Guang is the Director of and Professor at the Shanghai Center for International Studies and Institute of European & Asian Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Director of SCO Studies Center in Shanghai, Dean of Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai ...

 was awarded the first AHMA prize. Further recipients were the Brazilian journalist Alberto Dines

Alberto Dines

Alberto Dines is a Brazilian journalist and writer. With a career spanning over five decades, Dines directed and launched several magazines and newspapers in Brazil and Portugal...

, French Robert Hébras

Robert Hébras

Robert Hébras was one of only six persons to survive the massacre of Oradour on the 10 June 1944.Marguerite Rouffanche the only female survivor of this mass murder, which got to a national allegory for NS-Atrocity in the post war period in France...

, who was one of only six people, who survived the Massacre of Oradour

Oradour-sur-Glane

Oradour-sur-Glane is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Limousin region in west-central France.The original village was destroyed on 10 June 1944, when 642 of its inhabitants, including women and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company...

 and Lithuanian-American Holocaust survivor and co-founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum

Virginia Holocaust Museum

The Virginia Holocaust Museum is a Virginia museum dedicated to depicting the Holocaust as experienced by its victims. A main part of the exhibition is about the family story of Holocaust survivor Jay M. Ipson.-History:...

 Jay M. Ipson

Jay M. Ipson

Jay M. Ipson is a Lithuanian-American Holocaust survivor and co-founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia.-World War II and immigration:...

. In October 2010 Eva Marks

Eva Marks

Eva Marks is a survivor of the Holocaust and the wife of Stan Marks.- Life :Born in Vienna she fled to Latvia after the Kristallnacht subsequent to the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi Germany in the hope of getting a visa for the US...

 was honored with the AHMA by Austrian Ambassador Hannes Porias in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

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Honoring

In 2005 the founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service Andreas Maislinger received the Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria

Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria

The Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria is a state decoration of the Republic of Austria...

 in Silver from the president of Austria, Heinz Fischer

Heinz Fischer

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, and the Medal of Merit of the state of Tirol

Tyrol (state)

Tyrol is a state or Bundesland, located in the west of Austria. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical region of Tyrol.The state is split into two parts–called North Tyrol and East Tyrol–by a -wide strip of land where the state of Salzburg borders directly on the Italian province of...

 from Herwig van Staa

Herwig van Staa

Herwig van Staa was the governor of Tyrol from 2002 to 2008.Van Staa was born in Linz, Upper Austria . His father, who came from the Rhine area, worked as a technician in the steelworks in Linz and died in a sick bay in 1943 after military action on the Eastern Front. His mother came from an...

 and Luis Durnwalder

Luis Durnwalder

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.

On November 8, 2009 Maislinger was awarded with a Lifetime Achievement Award for "his 10 year fight to obtain official recognition of alternative, philanthropic service" at the Annual Dinner of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is a renowned holocaust museum in Los Angeles, California.-History:The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust is the oldest holocaust museum in the United States of America. In 1961 at Hollywood High School, a group of holocaust survivors taking English as a...

 together with Holocaust survivor and producer of Schindlers List Branko Lustig

Branko Lustig

Branko Lustig is a prominent Croatian Jewish film producer. He is the only person born in Croatia to have won two Academy Awards.-Early life:...

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See also

• Andreas Maislinger
  Andreas Maislinger
  Andreas Maislinger is an Austrian historian and founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service and Braunau Contemporary History Days.- Studying and learning :...
  
  
• Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
  Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
  The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award was founded by the Austrian Service Abroad in 2006.- Meaning :The prize is annually conferred on a person who has shown special endeavors for the memory of the Shoa.- Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service :...
  
  
• Austrian Peace Service
  Austrian Peace Service
  The Austrian Peace Service is the smallest of the three sectors of the Austrian Service Abroad.The Austrian Peace Service is one of the three sections of the Non-Profit-Organisation Austrian Service Abroad and offers a twelve month long alternative to the nine month long orderly civilian service.-...
  
  
• Austrian Service Abroad
  Austrian Service Abroad
  Austrian Service Abroad is a non-profit initiative and was founded in 1998 by Andreas Maislinger and Andreas Hörtnagl. Since 2001 Michael Prochazka is part of the managing committee.-General Information:...
  
  
• Austrian Social Service
  Austrian Social Service
  The Austrian Social Service is part of the Austrian Service Abroad, founded by Andreas Maislinger in 1998. It offers the possibility to substitute the compolsary military service in Austria with a 12-months service abroad....
  
  
• House of Responsibility
  House of Responsibility
  The House of Responsibility is a concept to combine scientific engagement about past, present and future. The house is located in the upper-Austrian town of Braunau am Inn. The former tavern was a cultural center for the Nazi party during the Third Reich...
  
  
• Paper Clips Project
  Paper Clips Project
  The Paper Clips Project is a project by middle school students from the small southeastern Tennessee city of Whitwell who created a monument for the Holocaust victims in Nazi Germany. It started in 1998 as a simple 8th-grade project and evolved into one gaining worldwide attention. At last count,...
  
  

External links

• http://www.gedenkdienst.org
• Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servants
• http://www.gedenkdienst.info
• Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Harald Edinger from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum