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Ernst-kirchweger-haus




The Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus ('''EKH''') is a building in Vienna 's 10th district, Favoriten .

Since June 23 , 1990 , it has been a Squatted Social Centre , which hosts Migrant s and Refugee s, community activities, and political groups.

The squatters, who describe the EKH as an "international, multicultural, antifascist centre", named the building after Ernst Kirchweger , a former Concentration Camp inmate and member of the antifascist Resistance , who was killed in 1965 by a right-wing protester during a demonstration against Taras Borodajkewycz , a former member of the NSDAP .

In ). After a long struggle, a company with close contacts to the municipality of Vienna bought the building in July 2005 , and the threat of eviction seems to have passed.


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EXTERNAL LINKS

  • [http://www.med-user.net/ekh Ernst-Kirchweger-Haus]

  • [http://www.med-user.net/ekh/ekhen.htm English-language EKH homepage]