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update: 05/01/2007

The 42 most important successes within 20 years of anti-fashist work:

Successes concerning shaping of political ideas

1.

Event "Foreigners in Our Country" (1991)

900

 

visitors

2.

Special performance of Schindler's List (1994)

6.000

 

youths

3.

Free brochures "Right-wing Extremism" (1994)

10.000

 

copies

4.

Opening day "War and Fascism" (1997)

350

 

visitors

5.

Exhibition "Anne Frank" (2000)

800

 

visitors

6.

"Prize of Solidarity" awarded in 2000

 

 

 

7.

Homepage www.antifa.at (2001)

 

 

 

8.

School-reading-tour with Ludwig Laher (2002)

1000

 

students

9.

Exhibition “Auschwitz” (2002 )

800

 

visitors

10.

Program featuring people who witnessed the holocaust / concentration camps resp. the Spanish Civil War (2003 )

1.000

 

youths

11.

Exhibition "Expelled Sense" (2004)

500

 

visitors

12.

Award of "Fritz-Freyschlag-Prize" (2004)

 

 

 

13.

Concentration camp commemoration with Dr. Heinz Fischer, federal president of Austria

600

 

participants

Humanitarian successes

14.

Baby-food for children of Bosnian refugees in Wels (1992)

15.

Important contribution to releasing an Iranian refugee from remand pending deportation (1995)

16.

Donation activities for the bereaved family of the victim of an arson attack (1998)

17.

Passing on of the money received for the "Prize of Solidarity", which was doubled by the City of Wels, to the Caritas House for Refugees ("House Courage")

18.

Residence permit and donation activities for the bereaved family of the victim of an arson attack (2003/2004)

19.

 Passing on of the money received for the "Fritz-Freyschlag-Prize", which was doubled by the City of Wels, to the Caritas House for Refugees ("House Courage") (2004)

20.

Working place and approval of settlement for the bereaved family of the victim of an arson attack (2005)

21.

Donation activities for the family of a seriously ill girl (2005)

Concrete political successes

22.

Prevention of meetings of the so-called "Glasenbacher" (sentenced National-socialists) (1987/88)

23.

Elimination of segregation of foreigners in the restaurant of the railway station in Wels (1993)

24.

Prohibition of NS-material at flee-markets (1994)

25.

Realisation of a plaque for Jewish citizens of Wels (1995)

26.

No more Waffen-SS-plaque in Wels (1995)

27.

Important contribution to the realisation of measures of the City of Wels concerning right-wing youths: street workers, youth centres (1995/96)

28.

Renaming of Kernstock Street into Thomas-Mann-Street (1997)

29.

Renaming of Moritz-Etzold-Halle into Gym-Hall Wels ((1997)

30.

Realisation of an invitation for the surviving Jewish citizens of Wels from the City of Wels (1997/98)

31.

Disbanding of the right-wing "Dichterstein-association" (1998)

32.

Realisation of a memorial for Josef Rohrmoser, priest and prisoner in a concentration camp, from St. Wolfgang (1999)

33.

Wide agreement with the political parties of Wels concerning the realisation of wide parts of the anti-fascist "11-Point-Programme 2003" (1999)

34.

Translation of the Wels Model of out-of-court-compensation for youths that commit petty crimes with right-wing character into action (1999/2000)

35.

Realisation of a memorial stone for the victim of the right-wing attack on a residential building for foreigners / Design of the stone by means of a student competition (1999/2000/2001)

36.

Naming of a street in Wels after “Anne Frank” (2000/2001)

37.

Sponsoring of the transfer of students from Wels to the exhibition "Wert des Lebens" by the City of Wels. (2003)

38.

Renewing the Memorial for Jewish Citizens from Wels (2004)

39.

Putting a stop to the so-called "Tag der volkstreuen Jugend", a torch procession and other activities of the neo-nationalsocialist "Bund Freier Jugend" (2005)

40.

Start of the research project "Wels and National Socialism" (2005)

41.

Renaming of "Margarethe-von-Pausinger Street" as well as the distancing from the honorary citizenship of the NS-informer Margarethe Pausinger by the district council of Lambach (2005/2006)

42.

Naming of two streets of Wels after the Resistance Fighters Rosa Jochmann and Risa Höllermann (2006)

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