It has recently become known that a project has been established, financed by the Austrian Government, in which non-Jewish Austrian young people who do not serve in the army are sent to places where there are Holocaust survivors and Holocaust museums such as the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Yad VaShem in Jerusalem, and the like, as part of their National Service. Other young people are sent to New York where they interview Jews who fled Austria during the Nazi period. The project has two objectives, including meetings of young people between the ages of 20 and 30 with Jews who left Austria and the study of the Holocaust period from a primary source. Thus far, over 2,000 testimonies have been gathered and they will be presented at an exhibition at the Jewish Museum in Vienna.
