Austrian Service Abroad
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| Founded | 1992, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria |
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| Area served | Global |
| Focus | Holocaust memorials, Anti-fascism, Humanitarian aid, Development aid, Peace movement |
| Method | National service alternatives, projects, seminars |
| Website | www.auslandsdienst.at/ |
Austrian Service Abroad is a non-profit initiative, founded in 1992 by Andreas Maislinger. The organization provides positions for an alternative Austrian national service all over the world. The regular nine month alternative national service (Zivildienst) is substituted by a 12-month service at one of its partner organisations abroad. There are great variations in the requirements. Austrian Service Abroad is an institution which provides young male Austrians with an alternative to the compulsory military service. Its main focuses are social work and Holocaust Memorial Service.
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[edit] Types of service
Austrian Service Abroad offers three different types of Zivildienst-substitutes:
- Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service (Österreichischer Gedenkdienst)
- Austrian Social Service (Österreichischer Sozialdienst)
- Austrian Peace Service (Österreichischer Friedensdienst)
[edit] International Council
Ernst Florian Winter, Chairman
Argentina: Erika Rosenberg
Brazil: Alberto Dines
Germany: Thomas Rabe
France: Michel Cullin
Hungary: György Dalos
India: Barbara Nath-Wiser
Israel: Ben Segenreich
Italy: Camilla Brunelli
Palestine: Andreas Sami Prauhart
Sweden: Gerald Nagler
USA: Randolph M. Bell, Anna Rosmus
[edit] Partners
The US is currently the country with the largest number of places offered for Holocaust Memorial Service. Well known Holocaust Museums and Memorial Institutions like the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in Los Angeles receive Holocaust Memorial Servants every year. As for Social Service, the focus lies on the developing world. Nevertheless, Austrian Service Abroad also sends Social Servants to the Gay Men's Health Crisis center in New York, where the young Austrians help HIV infected people to cope with their disease. At present, Austrian Service Abroad sends young Austrians to the following partner institutions:
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Sarajevo - Phoenix Initiative
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- Brazil
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- Alagoinhas - Associacao Lar Sao Benedito
- Lauro de Freitas - Community Centre Christ Liberator
- Petrópolis - Casa Stefan Zweig
- Rio de Janeiro - Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL)
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Canada
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- Montreal - Holocaust Memorial Centre
- Montreal - Kleinmann Family Foundation
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Chile
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- Santiago - CTD Galvarino - Sename (planned)
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Costa Rica
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- La Gamba - Tropical Field Station La Gamba
- Finca Sonador - Finca Sonador
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Czech Republic
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- Prague - Federation of Jewish Communities
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Gabon
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- Lambaréné - Medical Research Unit, Albert Schweitzer Hospital
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Guatemala
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- Santa Rosita - ASOL Casa Hogar
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- Israel
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- Jerusalem - St. Vincent-Ein Kerem
- Jerusalem - The Alternative Information Centre
- Jerusalem - Yad Vashem
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Poland
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- Kraków -Judaica Foundation - Center For Jewish Culture
- Kraków - PAH Polska Akcja Humanitarna
- Oświęcim - Auschwitz Jewish Center
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- USA
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- Detroit - Holocaust Memorial Center
- Houston - Holocaust Museum Houston
- Los Angeles - Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Los Angeles - Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
- Los Angeles - USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
- New York - Gay Men's Health Crisis
- New York - Museum of Jewish Heritage
- New York - Anti-Defamation League
- New York - American Jewish Committee
- Reno - Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Peace Studies
- Richmond - Virginia Holocaust Museum
- San Francisco - Holocaust Center of Northern California
- St. Petersburg - The Florida Holocaust Museum
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[edit] Austrian Servant Abroad of the Year
2005 Dr. Andreas Daniel Matt, SOS Children's Villages Lahore, Pakistan
2006 Martin Wallner, Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai, China
2007 Daniel James Schuster, Yad Vashem Jerusalem, Israel
2008 René J. Laglstorfer, Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour, France
[edit] Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award
In 2006 Austrian Service Abroad initiated the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA). Winners:
2006: Prof. Pan Guang, Shanghai, PR China.
2007: Alberto Dines, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2008: Robert Hébras, Oradour-sur-Glane, France
[edit] External links
- Austrian Service Abroad
- http://www.gedenkdienst.org
- http://www.sozialdienst.at (German)
- http://www.friedensdienst.at (German)
