As part of the Remember Me project, a cultural education impulse of OeAD for DERLA (Digital Memory Landscape Austria), eleven students from the Department of Sculpture Object Design Restoration at the Graz Ortwein School (Andreas Heller, Christian Lutz, Franz Pichler and Jakob Pock) were invited to cooperate with the Graz Museum. They dealt intensively with aspects of the Jewish Life in Graz exhibition presented there and designed artistic monuments as symbols of the contemporary culture of remembrance for specific public places.
Peter Roskaric created a fireman – a small bronze figure dressed in the uniform of the 1930s. Actually realized and installed in the immediate vicinity of the synagogue, it now serves as a memorial to the victims of the November pogroms. On that night from November 9th to 10th, 1938, the Graz synagogue burned down completely after an arson attack. The firefighters idly watched the blaze and only prevented it from spreading to nearby buildings.
