Karl Lueger served as mayor of Vienna for 13 years until his death in 1910. He was known for antisemitic rhetoric that is said to have inspired Adolf Hitler.
The Austrian government wanted to repurpose the building so it would not attract far-right tourists, according to a statement by Austria's Interior Ministry.
The aid that the Jewish community offers the refugees includes housing aid, psychosocial care, food vouchers, Shabbat meals and other forms of social welfare.
Vienna’s chief rabbi was on the train and said that the recording started with “strange music, snippets of conversation and laughter which suddenly turned into a Hitler speech."
The father kidnapped the children after claiming Israel was too dangerous for them because of rockets from Gaza.
For unknown reasons, parts of a speech by Hitler and Nazi chants were blasted over the speaker, on a train carrying an Austrian Rabbi, among others.
Of the 719 incidents, there were 14 physical assaults, 21 threats, 122 incidents of damage and desecration, 140 literature/mass mailings and 422 incidents of abusive behavior.
The slaughter is a potent reminder that German antisemitism did not begin in the 1930s or emerge from nowhere. It had a long and disgraceful record.
President of the Austrian Jewish community Oskar Deutsch said the results are startling but not surprising.
Ode to an antisemite: Preserving a towering tribute to one of Hitler’s sources of inspiration
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