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On Thursday, March 20, 2025, a pivotal roundtable discussion took place at CEU in Vienna to mark the fifth anniversary of the first lockdown in Austria. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only been a public health crisis; it has also exposed deeply entrenched issues of racism, antisemitism, and structural discrimination in societies worldwide.

Eighty-seven years since the ‘Anschluss’ —the incorporation of Austria into the Nazi-German Reich in March 1938 —preserving the memory of these catastrophic events and their impact on Austria and Europe’s Jewish population remains more important than ever.