Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service	Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
 	
Purpose 	Holocaust Memorial
Founder and Chairman 	Andreas Maislinger
Office 	Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria
Foundation 	1992, Innsbruck
 	
The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service (AHMS) is an alternative to Austria's compulsory national military service / alternative service. Its participants serve at major Holocaust memorial institutions in 23 countries.
The AHMS was founded by Andreas Maislinger, a political scientist from Innsbruck ( Tirol, Austria) who adopted the idea from the German Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (Aktion Suehnezeichen/Friedensdienste). Maislinger himself had worked as a volunteer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum, where the idea of the program was born.
In 1991 the required legislation was enacted by the Austrian Government and Andreas Maislinger began organizing what became known as the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service, an independent, though largely government-funded foundation. The intent of the AHMS is to recognize Austria's part of the collective responsibility for the Holocaust and the responsibility of each one of us to ensure that it "never again" happens (quote from a speech by then Austrian chancellor Franz Vranitzky, Jerusalem, June 1993).
The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service is a unique international network that provides assistance to Holocaust-related archives and museums. Since 1992 there have been sent about 500 AHMS interns, mostly in their 20s, either working to study and preserve Holocaust history in lieu of military service back home.
Austrian Service Abroad is the main body of the organization and authorized by the Austrian Government to send the interns to partner organizations worldwide.
==Partners==
 Australia
:*Melbourne - Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Center
:*Melbourne - Jewish Museum of Australia
 Austria
:*Braunau am Inn - House of Responsibility
 Brazil
:*Petrópolis - Casa Stefan Zweig 
 Bulgaria
:*Sofia - Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria "Shalom"
 Canada
:*Montreal - Holocaust Memorial Centre
:*Montreal - Kleinmann Family Foundation
 China 
:*Harbin - Harbin Jewish Research Center (planned)
:*Shanghai - Center of Jewish Studies
 Croatia
:*Jasenovac - Jasenovac concentration camp
 Czech Republic
:*Prague - Jewish Community of Prague
 England
:*London - Institute of Contemporary History and Wiener Library
:*London - The National Yad Vashem Charitable Trust
 France
:*Oradour - Centre de la Mémoire d'Oradour 
:*Paris - Amicale de Mauthausen 
:*Paris - La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation 
 Germany 
:*Berlin - Jüdisches Museum Berlin
:*Moringen - Concentration Camp Memorial at Torhaus Moringen 
:*Munich - Jewish Museum Munich
 Hungary
:*Budapest - European Roma Rights Centre
 Israel
:*Jerusalem - Yad Vashem
:*Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot - Ghetto Fighters' House
 Italy
:*Como - Istituto di Storia Contemporanea "Pier Amato Perretta"(ISC)
:*Milan - Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea
:*Marzabotto - Fondazione Scuola Di Pace Di Monte Sole - Peace School Foundation of Monte Sole
:*Prato - Museo della Deportazione
 Netherlands
:*Amsterdam - United
 Norway
:*Oslo - Jewish Community
 Poland
:*Oświęcim - Auschwitz Jewish Center 
:*Kraków - Judaica Foundation - Center For Jewish Culture
:*Warsaw - Jewish Museum Warsaw
:*Wroclaw - planned
 Russia
:*Moscow - Russian Research and Education Centre "Holocaust"
 Slovenia
:*Ljubljana
 Sweden
:*Uppsala - Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
:*Stockholm - Forum för levande historia
 Turkey
:*Istanbul - Jewish Museum Istanbul
 Ukraine
:*Kiew - Jewish Foundation of Ukraine
 USA
:*Detroit - Holocaust Memorial Center
:*Houston - Holocaust Museum Houston
:*Los Angeles - Simon Wiesenthal Center
:*Los Angeles - Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
:*Los Angeles - USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
:*New Orleans- National World War II Museum (planned)
:*New York - Museum of Jewish Heritage 
:*New York - Anti Defamation League
:*New York - American Jewish Committee
:*Reno - Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Peace Studies
:*Richmond - Virginia Holocaust Museum
:*San Francisco - Holocaust Center of Northern California
:*St. Petersburg - The Florida Holocaust Museum
== See also ==
*Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
*House of Responsibility, Paper Clips Project
== External links ==
* http://www.gedenkdienst.org
* Austrian Holocaust Memorial Servants
* http://www.gedenkdienst.info
* Voices on Antisemitism Interview with Harald Edinger from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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