Memorial Mungenast Innsbruck

On 27-2-2024 a Zeitpunkt was placed here for Hugo MUNGENAST.

Hugo MUNGENAST, born on 31-8-1904 in Sulz, died on 11-1-1940 in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

Hugo Mungenast was an unskilled worker, Catholic, married and childless.
He was of Jewish descent.
To the Nazis, the Yenian people were a "wandering rabble" who lived like gypsies.
They were described as "inferior of race, work-shy and antisocial", reason enough for the Nazis to prosecute them in the context of "preventative crime control".
In June 1938, the Gestapo arrested approximately 9,500 people during their raids, including many Gypsies, and took them to concentration camps.
Hugo Mungenast was sent to Dachau as a forced laborer on June 24, 1938.
On September 27, 1939 he was taken to the Mauthausen concentration camp where he died on January 11, 1940.

The city of Innsbruck has taken a new path when it comes to commemorations.
On January 27, 2024, International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, the new project "Zeitpunkte" was presented.
A hand-made bronze disc with a diameter of approximately eight centimeters and a thickness of three centimeters is mounted at eye level on light poles or posts in the immediate vicinity of the last freely chosen place of residence of the victims of the Nazi dictatorship. The person's name is on the round plaque, the "Zeitpunkt".
The inscription is engraved and sealed.
The attached QR code refers to the website www.zeitspitzen.at, where information about the biographies and locations can be found in several languages.