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Austrian Service Abroad (formerly Austrian Association for Service Abroad) is a non-profit initiative, founded in 1998 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. 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Andreas Maislinger (born 26 February 1955 in St. ...
Social workers are concerned with social problems, their causes, their solutions and their human impacts. ...
The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service (AHMS) (German: Österreichischer Gedenkdienst) is an alternative to Austrias compulsory national military service. ...
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Austrian Service Abroad offers three different types of Zivildienst-substitutes: The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service (AHMS) (German: Österreichischer Gedenkdienst) is an alternative to Austrias compulsory national military service. ...
The Austrian Service Abroad (Österreichischer Auslandsdienst) is a non-profit organization which was founded by Dr. Andreas Maislinger in 1998, created by section 12 (b) of the law for alternative services. ...
The Austrian Peace Service is the smallest of the three sectors of the Austrian Association for Service Abroad. ...
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: The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service (AHMS) (German: Österreichischer Gedenkdienst) is an alternative to Austrias compulsory national military service. ...
Concentration camp inmates during the Holocaust The Holocaust was Nazi Germanys systematic genocide (ethnic cleansing) of various ethnic, religious, national, and secular groups during World War II. Early elements include the Kristallnacht pogrom and the T-4 Euthanasia Program established by Hitler that killed some 200,000 people. ...
The Simon Wiesenthal Center The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish organization that declares itself to be a human rights group dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. ...
The Shoah Foundation or Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation or Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a non-profit organization established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing the Academy Award-winning film Schindlers List. ...
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The Austrian Service Abroad (Österreichischer Auslandsdienst) is a non-profit organization which was founded by Dr. Andreas Maislinger in 1998, created by section 12 (b) of the law for alternative services. ...
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The Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria (OJB) coordinates the different Jewish communities in Bulgaria, a country where about 8000 Jews live. ...
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The Harbin Jewish Research Center is located in Harbin (China) and was founded in April 2000 by the Heilongjiang Academy of Social Sciences. ...
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// Introduction The Centre de la mémoire dOradour made it its duty to commemorate the crimes of the 2nd armored division of the Waffen-SS Das Reich in Oradour sur Glane, to inform about the crime, and to act as a memorial for coming generations. ...
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The Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation was founded on 17 October 1990 ont of the initiative of the former french prime minister Michel Rocard as well as of the former minister of the Interior. ...
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Dharamsala is also the archaic name for a gurdwara, a Sikh temple. ...
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Saint Vincent-Ein Kerem is a home for physically or mentally handicapped children. ...
Hebrew יְרוּשָ××œÖ·×™Ö´× (Yerushalayim) (Standard) Yerushalayim or Yerushalaim Arabic commonly القـÙدْس (Al-Quds); officially in Israel أورشليم القدس (Urshalim-Al-Quds) Name Meaning Hebrew: (see below), Arabic: The Holiness Government City District Jerusalem Population 724,000 (2006) Jurisdiction 123,000 dunams (123 km²) Mayor Uri Lupolianski Web Address www. ...
Hebrew יְרוּשָ××œÖ·×™Ö´× (Yerushalayim) (Standard) Yerushalayim or Yerushalaim Arabic commonly القـÙدْس (Al-Quds); officially in Israel أورشليم القدس (Urshalim-Al-Quds) Name Meaning Hebrew: (see below), Arabic: The Holiness Government City District Jerusalem Population 724,000 (2006) Jurisdiction 123,000 dunams (123 km²) Mayor Uri Lupolianski Web Address www. ...
Yad Vashem memorial sculpture Yad Vashem (יד וש×) is Israels official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust established in 1953 through the Memorial Law passed by the Knesset, Israels parliament. ...
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The Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation was established in April 1998 by the City of Hiroshima to promote peace, and to consolidate the Citys activities in peace promotion, globalization, and international cooperation. ...
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Auschwitz Jewish Center (Polish: Centrum Zydowskie w Oswiecimiu) is a memorial for the victims of the Holocaust. ...
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Fort Portal is a town in western Uganda and the seat of both the Kabarole district and the Toro kingdom. ...
The Mountains of the Moon University (MMU) is the university of the city Fort Portal in the district Kabarole in the western region of Uganda and was named after the Rwenzori-Mountains, which connect the regions Kabarole, Kasese, Bundibugyo, Kibaale, Bushenyi and the democratic republic of Congo. ...
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The Wiener Library is the worlds oldest institution devoted to the study of the Holocaust, its causes and legacies. ...
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The Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) in Detroit, Michigan was the first institution of its kind in the United States. ...
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The Holocaust Museum Houston, is located in Houston, Texas and was opened in 1996. ...
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish organization that declares itself to be a human rights group dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action. ...
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The Museums Robert M. Morgenthau wing The Museum of Jewish Heritage, located at 36 Battery Park Place, Manhattan (New York City, USA), was created as a living memorial to the Holocaust. ...
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The Museum The Virginia Holocaust Museum opened its doors at the current location (2000 E. Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23223) in April 2003. ...
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The Florida Holocaust Museum is a Holocaust musuem located in St. ...
Austrian Servant Abroad of the Year 2005 Dr. Andreas Daniel Matt : Andreas Daniel Matt completed his alternative service abroad working for SOS Children's Villages in Lahore, Pakistan. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
SOS Childrens Villages is an independent, non-governmental international development organisation which has been working to meet the needs and protect the interests and rights of children since 1949. ...
Lahore (Urdu: لاÛور, Punjabi: Ù„Ûور) is the capital of the province of Punjab, and the second most populated city in Pakistan, also known as the Gardens of the Mughals or City of Gardens, after the significant rich heritage of the Mughal Empire. ...
2006 Martin Wallner : Martin Wallner serves as a Holocaust Memorial Servant at the Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai. For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
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Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award In 2006 Austrian Service Abroad initiated the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA). Winners: For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
Professor Pan Guang‚ 2006 The Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award (AHMA) was founded by the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service in 2006. ...
Dr. Pan Guang Dr. Pan Guang (born June 7, 1947, in Shanghai, China) is the Director and Professor of Shanghai Center for International Studies and Institute of European & Asian Studies at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Director of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Studies Center in Shanghai, Dean of Center of...
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