The “Memorial to the Austrian Jewish Victims of the Shoa” on Judenplatz reminds us of the 65,000 Jews murdered under the Nazi regime. The outer sides of the reinforced concrete cube conceived by the British artist Rachel Whiteread (born in 1963) present themselves as library shelves. 41 names of places where Austrian Jews were put to death are engraved around the bottom of the monument; a symbolic door conceals the volume’s interior. The object is a symbol for the Jewish culture of books, which not only offers a sphere of refuge, but also stands as a living sign for the surviving Jewish mind.