Jewish students block Austria far-right parliament speaker at Holocaust memorial
Raw StoryA group of Jewish students on Friday prevented Austria's first far-right parliamentary speaker from laying a wreath at a Holocaust memorial, accusing him of "spitting in the faces of our ancestors". As Austria marked the 86th anniversary of the anti-Jewish Kristallnacht -- or the Night of Broken Glass -- pogrom on Friday, several Jewish demonstrators blocked Rosenkranz from laying a wreath at Vienna's main Holocaust memorial. Carrying a banner of the Austrian Union of Jewish Students group that read "The word of whoever honours Nazis is worthless", they told Rosenkranz they didn't want to remember the pogrom with him. He was not invited to the official remembrance ceremony organised by Austria's main Jewish organisation with its president saying it was "impossible to remember the victims together with such a person."
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