President Adolf Schaerf sent a New Year’s message of Austrian Jewry, emphasizing the important contributions they have made to the economic and cultural reconstruction of Austria.
Josef Klaus, the Chancellor, Bruno Pitterman, the vice-chancellor, most Cabinet members, and Vienna Mayor Jonas also sent New Year messages expressing the hope that the Nazi time of terrorism for Jews would never come again.
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