5.02.2020 00:12
(Act. 5.02.2020 00:12)
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A commemoration ceremony for the victims of the pipe bomb attack in the night of February 5, 1995 took place in Oberwart on Tuesday evening. In the European Middle School, the four Roma killed were remembered, followed by a commemorative march and a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial to the assassination attempt.
The murder that happened here 25 years ago not only remains unforgotten, but also changed society in Austria: “It has become vulnerable where we believed we have overcome the horrors of the Nazi empire and the machinery of extermination,” said the President of the National Council Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP). The thoughts had not disappeared from some minds back then, before, but also after and to this day.
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The time when a criminal regime plunged the whole of Europe, indeed the whole world, into a very special catastrophe still shows after 75 years of aftermath. “It is our job today not only not to forget, but also to act accordingly,” said Sobotka.
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“If remembrance is to make sense, it is not only a matter of constantly showing our sympathy to the families of the victims, but then it should also make sense to remind us that we are measured in everyday life by where the small beginnings of racism, marginalization come to the fore, raise your voice – where it is not enough to make it public, even going to the police when the red lines are crossed “, said the President of the National Council. “It is up to all of us to do these actions again and again every day. Remembrance reminds us, it addresses us to ourselves.”
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Those who are here today “are convinced that only the opposite respect enables a peaceful life with each other. But if we pick up those who are distant, we pick up those who turn away, who don’t look. And let’s pick them up who are up to bad things who want to disrupt the common ground of our country. That can be our mission even 25 years after this terrible murder, “said Sobotka.
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“The 4th and 5th of February took away an illusion – also for Burgenland as a whole,” said state president Verena Dunst (SPÖ). She emphasized the importance of remembering and remembering. It is “important because we must not forget that and it must never happen again”. “Let us keep this learning, look, look at, with respect and dignity and supportive – because that is the prerequisite for peace, small and large,” appealed the President of the Landtag to the participants of the commemoration.
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The Oberwart assassination marked “the end of five decades of peaceful and consensual politics in Austria and a reawakening of a murderous, racist right-wing extremism,” stated Gerhard Baumgartner, the scientific director of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW). “Erwin Horvath, Karl Horvath, Peter Sarközi and Josef Simon fell victim to an extreme right-wing ideology directed against minorities in their own country and against immigrants,” said Baumgartner.
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