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April 5, 2006
Stuttgart-based firm Fischer, Naumann
and Partners and artist Kirstin Arndt have won an international
competition to build Vienna's "Memorial for the Deported
Neighbors," to commemorate the suffering of the Jewish
community during the Second World War.
The memorial will be located in a park that will be part
of Sir Norman Foster's redevelopment plan for the area around
the demolished Aspang Railway Station. The design calls for
a 98-foot-long by seven-foot-wide trench cutting through the
park. Engraved in the sunken stainless-steel walls of the
16-foot-deep trench will be the names of thousands of deportees.
Visitors will wear a path on the ground up to and around the
memorial that FNP partner Martin Naumann says will have, "poetic
value."
In a statement responding to critics who have argued that
the memorial will diminish the value of names displayed in
the Seitenstettengasse Synagogue, Naumann says: "The
fact that we propose to list the names, again, is not about
diminishing the value of any other listing. The murdered people
should be remembered as individuals, not only by vast numbers."
Completion of the approximately $490,000 memorial is set
for 2008, although this could be delayed because Foster's
masterplan is currently on hold.
Robert Such
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