Overview
- Description
- Contains 14,087 membership applications and their respective case files of Austrian former concentration camp inmates. The KZ-Verband (Association of Concentration Camp Survivors) in Vienna collected these applications from concentration camp survivors. The membership in the KZ-Verband was crucial in getting a formal recognition as a victim of Nazi persecution and compensation from the Austrian government. Approximately 75% of the collected cases pertain to political victims while the remaining 25% (approximately 3,750 cases) pertain to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. The association followed a rigorous application process. Applicants were subject to repeat internal reviews, interviews, and checking of facts. At that time, there still was a stigma among the general public in Austria who associated the internment in a concentration camp with a criminal past. The KZ-Verband removed from the membership anyone whose credentials were suspect; e.g. concentration camp victims who had been imprisoned by the Nazis due to their sexual orientation and deemed as "asocial" by the Nazis. This collection contains the earliest records related to Austrian concentration camp survivors.
- Alternate Title
- Alliance of Concentration Camp Survivors, Vienna
- Date
-
creation:
1946
- Reference
- Florian Freund and Hans Safrian, Expulsion and Extermination. The Fate of the Austrian Jews 1938-1945. Project "Registration by Name: Austrian Victims of the Holocaust", issued by the Austrian Resistance Archive, Vienna 1997.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Application forms.
- Extent
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114,426 digital images : JPEG ; 129 GB.
- System of Arrangement
- 14,087 individual membership case files arranged alphabetically by last name.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Fair use for research purposes only. Duplication of the microfilm reel or CD-ROM and publication of documents requires permission of the source archives.
- Copyright Holder
- Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp inmates--Austria--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Austrian. Antisemitism--Europe--History--20th century. World War, 1939-1945--Registers--Austria. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria. Jews--Austria--Registers. World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Austria.
- Geographic Name
- Austria--Politics and government--1938-1945.
- Corporate Name
- KZ-Verband Oberösterreich
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Records from the Documentary Archives of the Austrian Resistance, Vienna, Austria. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in Nov. 2011.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 10:20:47
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