A history remembered IN JERUSALEM Edition

• Published in: The Jerusalem post
• Main Author: Max, Danielle
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Jerusalem The Jerusalem Post Ltd 11.11.2005
• Subjects: Bugnyar, Rector; Ries, Henry

[Henry Ries] finally immigrated to the United States in 1938, and, in an irony of history, it was he who captured the return of the Exodus in the photographs that are currently on display in the Austrian Hospice in the Old City. The photographs are part of a special exhibition about Displaced Persons (DPs) in Austria, running in conjunction with the Jewish Museum of Vienna. The English-language exhibition consists of a series of 24 panels displaying photographs and documents that cover events in post-World War II Austria, beginning with the liberation of the Austrian concentration camps, including the large camps at Mauthausen and Ebensee. The exhibit also features some of the newspapers published by the Jewish DPs in Austria, written in German, Yiddish or Yiddish with Latin letters, and concludes with a portrait of Vienna's post-Holocaust Jewish community and with photographs of DPs celebrating the establishment of the State of Israel. Today, just as in the 19th century, the Hospice provides a place for Austrian pilgrims to stay when they are making their religious journeys. The aim, says [Rector Bugnyar], is to allow visitors to feel at home, even though they are far away from Austria. "We want to have this Austrian style hospitality and Austrian style atmosphere that cannot be created by somebody else."