Overview
- Description
- Contains reports and communication documents from various prisons, penal institutions and detention facilities in the Ostmark (Austria), Bohemia and Moravia, and the General Gouvernment including Stein an der Donau, Hirtenberg, Krems, Kaiser-Ebersdorf, Znaim (Znojmo), Oppeln (Opava), Posen (Poznań), Vienna, and others; personnel matters of various courts and prosecutor's offices, including Vienna; lists of employees of the penal system; petitions received from inmates, including Jews; reports about incidences and infractions in the various penal institutions, including escaped inmates; reports and regulations about daily operations in the various penal institutions.
- Alternate Title
- Justice Ministry : State Public Prosecutor's Office at the Superior State Court Vienna, Dept. 6, 1939-1945 ; Miscellaneous Matters of Penal Institutions
- Date
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inclusive:
1939-1945
- Collection Creator
- Austria. Justizministerium
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Registers. Reports.
- Extent
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129,383 digital images : JPEG ; 63.2 GB.
129 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Users are required to complete a User Declaration in order to gain access to the collection. User declarations must be forwarded by USHMM once a year to Austrian State Archives.
- Conditions on Use
- Use of archival material from the Austrian State Archives is limited to personal or scholarly research or for research about the applicant’s family members. Transfer of the reproduced archival material to third persons is not permitted. Publication of archival material requires the written permission of the Austrian State Archives. The researcher agrees to cite the original archival reference and name of the source archive in any work and publications, personal data are to be published in anonymized form only, a copy of any publication in which archival material from the Austrian State Archives was used shall be sent to the Austrian State Archives free of charge.
- Copyright Holder
- Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons--Registers. Prison administration--Austria--History--20th century. Criminal justice, Administration of. Nazis--Legal status, laws, etc. Political prisoners--Austria--Stein an der Donau. Law--Austria--Stein an der Donau--Sources. Law--Austria--Krems an der Donau--Sources. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria.
- Geographic Name
- Austria--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. Stein an der Donau (Austria)--Politics and government. Krems an der Donau (Austria)--Politics and government. Hirtenberg (Austria)--Politics and government. Poznań (Poland)--Politics and government. Znojmo (Czech Republic)--Politics and government. Opava (Czech Republic) Vienna (Austria) Austria
- Corporate Name
- Nazi Party Ministry of Justice (Austria)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Österreichisches Staatsarchiv
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- From the Österreichisches Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives), a sub-collection of a larger group of records of the Ministry of Justice (Signatur: AT-OeStA/AVA Justiz). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in April 2012.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-06 15:38:41
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