This morning the homeland service chairman laid Josef Feldner with deputy chairman Franz Jordan and the member of the Carinthian Consensus Group Marjan storm a wreath at the Jewish cemetery in Klagenfurt in grateful memory of the Jewish Carinthian defensive fighter Robert PRICE nieder.

In his commemorative words Josef Feldner towards the terrible fate, das Juden unter dem NS-Terrorregime erleiden mussten.

Feldner recalled the invaluable achievements, die die autochthone jüdische Bevölkerung in Österreich-Ungarn und danach in allen Lebensbereichen erbracht hatte.

In the First World War, continued Feldner, Jews fought side by side with the other Austrian soldiers until the end. Many of them fell, was ihnen aber Jahrzehnte hindurch nicht gedankt wurde.

Jews also played a key role in the Carinthian defensive campaign. Today, on behalf of everyone, we want to commemorate the Carinthian defensive fighter Robert Preis and include all victims of the Holocaust in our remembrance, so Feldner abschließend.

Marjan storm pointed out, that the Jewish population in Carinthia was the first, who was expelled and persecuted. And storm on:

From this follows, that we must always include all victim groups in our remembrance