Milena Migut - “Shadow of my former neighbor” – research on awareness of citizens of former Jewish districts of Bratislava and Vienna

While being in Bratislava and Vienna I am planning to contact people living in the former Jewish districts, to ask if they know about the Jewish heritage there and check, how the new citizens are influencing the post-Jewish parts of the city. Both Vienna and Bratislava had big and influential Jewish communities – Jews were highly integrated citizens, influencing city development and culture. Vienna’s Jewish population numbered more than 185,000 before 1938. Nowadays there are around 7000 Jews living in Vienna, most of them are Jewish refugees from the post Soviet countries. In 1930 the Jewish population in Bratislava numbered 14,882. Nowadays it doesn’t reach 1000.

In my research I’d like to ask people who live in the former Jewish neighborhoods (many of them have Arabic background), what they know about the history of the district and if there are any social/cultural actions focused on commemorating the former citizens (and not organized by the Jewish Community, but by the people living in post-Jewish houses). Some of the questions I’m going to ask are:
Why and when did you move into this district / house?
Do you know how old the house / district is?
Do you know, who was living here before you? Before the war?
Do you know your neighbors? Who are they? What nationality are they?
Do you know any places of Jewish heritage in your surrounding?

I would also like to check, how the external appearance of the former Jewish quarters is changed by the non-Jewish citizens nowadays. Besides writing an article I am planning to make a photo-reportage, consisting on pictures showing the former Jewish quarter.
If the people, who I will be asking, will allow for that, I would like to record their answers to make kind of multimedia report (with podcast and pictures) on the issue of consciousness of Jewish heritage in Bratislava and Vienna.