Schwedenbrücke
Schwedenbrücke
As you walk toward the Schwedenbrücke along the Danube canal, on your left you’ll see the well regarded Motto am Fluss restaurant. And if you look down the canal past the next bridge, you’ll see the Badeschiff, which, if you’re young and hip, is a place to hang out at the bar, eat in the restaurant, and if you insist, swim. Motto am Fluss is where you go when you’re older and have more money.Let’s cross the Danube canal over the Schwedenbrücke and on the right side, you’ll see a remarkable monument—metal cut-out letters of a poem written by Ilsa Aichinger and it was just here, in 1941, that Ilsa stood and watched her relatives being taken away on a flatbed truck, down Taborstrasse and to the train station—and death. Please see the show notes for the translation.You’ll find Holocaust memorials like this in several places in Vienna--sentences painted into sidewalks, for instance, and most well known are the brass stumbling stones, or stolpersteine, naming someone who lived at this or that address and were sent off to their deaths. They even tell you where they were murdered.
As seen on
Centropa Jewish Vienna Tour