A private tour of real Judenplatz, the Holocaust memorial, and Vienna's oldest surviving synagogue.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at Judenplatz, the genuine Holocaust memorial, and Sigmund Freud sites.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Judenplatz, the genuine Holocaust memorial, the oldest surviving synagogue exterior, and Sigmund Freud's real Vienna connections.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point in central Vienna.
Genuine, moving memorial.
Genuine historic exterior.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at Judenplatz, the genuine Holocaust memorial, and Sigmund Freud sites. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Judenplatz, the genuine Holocaust memorial, the oldest surviving synagogue exterior, and Sigmund Freud's real Vienna connections.
At the center of Judenplatz stands Rachel Whiteread's Nameless Library, Austria's central memorial to its Jewish Holocaust victims. The British artist's design is a stark reinforced-concrete cube resembling a library turned inside out, its surfaces cast to resemble rows of books with their pages, rather than their spines, facing outward — a quiet reference to the Nazi book burnings and to Jewish tradition as a 'people of the book.' The memorial commemorates the roughly 65,000 Austrian Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and its doors, fittingly, have no handles.
The memorial's own construction history is part of the story. It was originally meant to be installed in 1996, but the project was delayed for years after excavation work on the site uncovered the remains of a medieval synagogue beneath the square — a real archaeological find that pushed the memorial's eventual unveiling back to 2000. Those medieval foundations, among the oldest Jewish religious remains in Vienna, can now be viewed beneath Judenplatz itself.
A short walk away, the threads connect back to Sigmund Freud, whose home and consulting rooms at Berggasse 19 anchored nearly five decades of his working life, from 1891 until his emigration in 1939 — one more layer in a square and a neighborhood that carries the full arc of Vienna's Jewish history, from medieval settlement to 20th-century catastrophe to present-day memory.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.