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Postwar Jewish Community Vienna collection

Document | Accession Number: 2019.29.1 | RG Number: RG-17.053

Records relating to the Jewish community Vienna in the immediate postwar period, including telephone and address books; electoral registers; correspondence with international organizations and individuals; case files; reports; questionnaires; financial records, and lists of survivors relating to searches for individuals, restitution, care of Jews, missing persons, Jewish refugees and DPs.

Date
inclusive:  1942-1955
bulk:  1945-1955
Language
German
Genre/Form
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Correspondence.
Protocols.
Questionnaires.
Registers.
Reports.
Statistics.
Extent
141,443 digital images : TIFF ; 96,5 .

About This Document

System of Arrangement
Arranged by subject files: General Administration files; Correspondence; The Care Department files; The International Committee for Jewish Refugees (Registers, statistics from DP camps,) Correspondence is organized partially alphabetically and partially by numbers.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
Arkhiyon ha-merkazi le-toldot ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The Postwar Jewish Community Vienna Collection is a part of the official archive of the Jewish Community Vienna that was transferred for safekeeping in the 1950s and 1960s from Vienna to the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP), located in Jerusalem. While the collection is stored in Jerusalem, the Jewish Community Vienna remains the official owner of the materials.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Feb. 2019..

Rights and 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.
Conditions on Use
Publication, reproductions or use of documents for commercial purposes for third parties require the written consent of the original record owner, the Jewish Community Vienna.

Copyright Holder
Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien
 
Record last modified: 2023-08-28 09:13:56
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