Shoah Namensmauern Gedenkstätte, Memorial in Alsergrund, Vienna, Austria

The Shoah Namensmauern is a memorial in Vienna's Ostarrichi Park made of 180 light Kashmir Gold granite slabs, each two metres high and one metre wide, imported from India and ground in Italy. The slabs bear the names of all 65,000 Austrian Jewish children, women and men murdered in the Shoah, arranged as a wall of names.

The project was initiated in 2000 by Kurt Yakov Tutter, an Austrian-born artist living in Canada, and the memorial association was founded that same year. The Austrian government adopted the project in March 2018, construction began in summer 2020, and the memorial was handed over to the public on 9 November 2021, the anniversary of the November Pogroms of 1938.

The German name Namensmauern means name walls, and the memorial is the first in Austria to list all 65,000 Austrian Jewish victims of the Shoah by name. The list was compiled by the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance. A letter from Holocaust survivor Gertrude Schneider expressed her dream of seeing her father's name there with her daughter; she died about a year before the opening.

The memorial is located in Ostarrichi Park near the Austrian National Bank and remains accessible at any time of day or night for visitors. The oval layout allows people to walk through at their own pace and spend as much time as needed.

The names engraved on the granite plates come from records provided by the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, drawn from historical archives and registries. This means each name represents a documented individual rather than just a statistical figure.