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    Vienna:

    British artist Rachel Whiteread's controversial Holocaust Memorial stands in Vienna's Innere Stadt. The surfaces of the concrete block are cast library shelves turned inside-out with the book spines hidden. Inscriptions pay solemn testament to the genocide of 65,000 Austrian Jews.



    It stands on a low plinth around which have been inscribed the names of the camps and sites where the massacres took place - there were more than 30 camps in Austria alone. One side of the memorial bears a tribute to the dead written in English, German and Hebrew.

    Whatever your opinion of this sculpture as a work of art, its political and cultural significance is undoubted. See for yourself.

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