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KARL UHER

KARL UHER

VIENNA/AUSTRIA 1932

FOUNDING HOME FOSTER FAMILIES ACCUSATION OF ARSON YBBS MÖDLING SEVERAL ORPHANAGES

He came to the orphanage in the Lustkandl alley when he was just a few months old

Several foster homes, some of them were in Styria

Falsely accused of arson

August 1940: “Am Spiegelgrund” clinic, part of the Nazi regime’s child euthanasia program

1941 YBBS

1942 Mödling

Until 1951: partially at home, otherwise in different orphanages

From 1953 working for the municipality of Vienna

“We always saw a black van arriving, but we did not know that these were dying children.”

Lest We Forget Vienna 03-15-2019