Dr. Ida Salamon

I was born in Belgrade, I am living in Vienna and I am traveling often between the both cities and many other destinations.
Due to the wide range of study programs available in the Humanities at the School of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade, I decided to pursue a degree in Ethnology and Anthropology, where I completed my doctorate on the Serbian diaspora in Vienna.
Before working as the Cultural and Educational Director of the Jewish Community of Belgrade, I was employed at the University as a research assistant.
I authored an exhibition at the Ethnographical Museum in Belgrade entitled “Between Tradition and Fashion – Garments of Belgrade Jews at the End of XIX and the First Half of XX Century.“ This exhibition was awarded the “Event of the Year in Serbian Photography” by the National Center for Photography.
In my essay, “Solidarity and Identity”, published in the “Annual of Social History”, I described how members of the Jewish Community of Belgrade spent three months in Budapest during the 1999 NATO bombings of Serbia. For my humanitarian work with refugees, the Federation of Jewish Communities awarded me with the Megila.
As the Serbian coordinator for “The Central European Center for Research and Documentation – Centropa” of Vienna, I recorded testimonies and conducted interviews with Holocaust survivors.
Currently, I work in the marketing, sponsoring, and event management branch of the Jewish Museum Vienna, as well as a freelance journalist for various media outlets.