The new campus of Vienna’s Jewish community (IKG) was inaugurated on Tuesday in the presence of Austrian President Heinz Fischer and the president of the World Jewish Congress, Ronald S. Lauder. The new facilities include Europe’s largest Jewish care center for seniors, the Maimonides Center. Fischer declared: “This center should allow people who suffered terrible injustices in the past to pass the final years of their life in security.” It was never too late to assume responsibility for the past and to try and soothe the suffering of Holocaust survivors, the president said.
The campus includes the Zwi Perez Chajes Jewish School and the Hakoah Sports and Leisure Center, which were already opened in 2008. The complex cost an estimated US$ 100 million.
