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Tracing Jewish forced labour in the kaiserstadt: a tainted tour of Vienna

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Vienna is one of the most popular tourist destinations, and over the last two decades commemorating the Holocaust has also become a tourist attraction, after much social and political struggle. The most notable sight is the Holocaust monument in the Judenplatz, which was unveiled in 2000.
At the end of 1944, about 15,000 Jews were brought to Strasshof from four Hungarian ghettos. In the Strasshof camp a 'slave market' was opened to meet the needs of Austrian entrepeneurs who urgently needed manpower in their factories and farms

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