Referring to an excerpt from the diary of Graz Chief Rabbi David Herzog, Catrin Bolt applied the concept of her memorial as a textual work. In his notes, David Herzog describes how, on that night in November 1938 which would later go down in history as the November Pogrom, he was violently awakened and brutally driven towards the synagogue. Catrin Bolt places excerpts of this description as text passages on the ground along the entire route that Herzog had to cover from his apartment on Radetzkystrasse to Griesplatz. The actual destination, the synagogue, could not be reached due to the large-scale closure caused by the blaze that destroyed the building.
The urban space, used especially at that time as a place of assertion of power and exclusion, becomes a narrator of its own past. Based on this individual fate, the horrible dimension of inhumane mass madness becomes recognizable and tangible.
technical consultation:
Firma Kansai Helios
Location:
Radezkystraße 8 via the Grieskai, Rosenkranzgasse, Kleegasse and Brückenkopfgasse to the Griesplatz
