Stone of Remembrance Cafe Rembrandt Vienna

Immediately following the declaration of the Anschluss, the German Wehrmacht marched into Austria in the morning hours of 12 March 1938. In Jewish Vienna, Jews were dragged out of their apartments and publicly humiliated to the spiteful applause of bystanders. Jewish shops were vandalized and looted. Jewish owners then had their business confiscated. National Socialists and their sympathizers used the first few weeks after the "Anschluss" to enrich themselves.
One of the first great Viennese coffee houses attacked was Café Rembrandt at Untere Augartenstrasse 11. Nazis vandalized the Cafe, marked it as Jewish property, and confiscated it. Patrons were no longer allowed to visit the coffee house. Soon after, the Nazis confiscated Cafe Rembrandt. The great cafe culture of the Habsburg empire, the meeting place of intellects, was dead.

On May 31, 2011, a stone of remembrance was laid on the sidewalk in front of Untere Augartenstrasse 11, where Cafe Rembrandt once stood.

Sadly, the meeting place of Vienna's intellectuals and Jewish leaders -- the magnificent Cafe Rembrandt -- never fully recovered from World War 2. After the war the building was renovated and today bears little resemblance to the once glorious cafe that occupied the ground floor.

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