Akten der Anthropologischen Abteilung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.323 | RG Number: RG-17.010M

Overview

Description: Contains documents and photographs relating to pseudoscientific racial studies performed by Josef Wastl and team of anthropologists at the Natural History Museum Vienna, including the physical measuring and examination of Jews in Vienna and Tarnó́w, persons of unclear racial lineage in Vienna, and POWs in various Stalags. Contains also more than four-hundred original three-part portrait photographs, taken as part of the racial science examinations of stateless Jews in the soccer stadium in Vienna in 1939, and over a one thousand color slides taken of POWs as part of examinations that took place in various Stalags. The records also feature communication with an anatomical institute in Poland pertaining to the requisition of skeletons and body parts from Jewish and Polish victims for research and exhibition.
Alternate Title: Records of the Department of Anthropology of the Natural History Museum Vienna
Date: inclusive: 1930-1947
Credit Line: Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Collection Creator: Das Naturhistorischen Museums Wien

Language: German
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Extent: 7,473 digital images : JPEG ; 16.6 GB.
5 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
6 DVD-ROMs ; 4 3/4 in..
System of Arrangement: Digital records organized in the following order: I. DVD 1: Korrespondenz 1930-1947; DVD 2: Inventare-Judenfriedhöfe; Stadion Juden-Gruppencharakteristika; Stadion Juden-Messblätter-1-2; Stadion Juden-Messblätter-2-2; II. DVD 1:Kahlich 1-2 Inv. Nr.2599 Kahlich 2-2 Inv. Nr.2599; Tarnow Kahlich Inv. Nr. 2600; Kriegsgefangene-Korres., Inv-Nr-2735; DVD 2: Kriegsgefangenen-Stadion-Protokol.-1-6; Rassenkundliche Untersuchungen(2623); III. DVD1:Anthropologisch-erbbiologische Gutachten 01-70; DVD 2: Anthropologisch-erbbiologische Gutachten 61-250
Arrangement is thematic

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: Publication of original documents, reproduction of documents for commercial use, duplication of DVDs and microfilms for third parties require the permission of the Natural History Museum, Department of Anthropology, Vienna, Austria.

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Austria. War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Austria. Jews--Austria--History--20th century.
Geographic Name: Vienna (Austria)
Personal Name: Wastl, Josef.

Holder of Originals: Das Naturhistorischen Museums Wien
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2006.
Special Collection: Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive