'Laa an der Thaya' is a town in
Niederösterreich,
Austria near the
Czech border. The population in
2001 was 6137.
In June of 2005, about 250 townspeople and 80 visitors from the US, Israel and Europe with historical family links to former Jewish citizens of Laa an der Thaya assembled
with Mayor Fass to dedicate a memorial to the members of 33 Jewish families of Laa murdered by the SS in Auschwitz. This memorial is perhaps only the second official memorial dedicated to the memory of Austria's Jews.
External links
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Museums of Laa