Skip to main content

Postwar Jewish Community Vienna collection

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

Overview

Description: 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

Physical Details

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

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.
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

Keywords & Subjects

Topical Term: World War, 1939-1945--Austria. Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Austria. Refugees, Jewish--Austria. Emigration & immigration--Austria--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--History.
Geographic Name: Athens (Greece) Austria--Politics and government--History--20th century. Bratislava (Slovakia) Bregenz (Austria) Kosice (Slovakia) Vienna (Austria)--Emigration and immigration.
Corporate Name: World Jewish Congress American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration

Administrative Notes

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..

Record last modified:: 2023-08-28 09:13:56
This page:: http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn652266

Additional Resources

User Declaration Form

Download & Licensing

See Rights and Restrictions
Terms of Use
This record is digitized but cannot be downloaded online.

In-Person Research

Requires Research Visit
Plan a Research Visit
Request in Shapell Center Reading Room
Bowie, MD

Contact Us

Give Feedback

Learn About the Holocaust

These additional online resources from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history.

Holocaust Encyclopedia

The Holocaust Encyclopedia provides an overview of the Holocaust using text, photographs, maps, artifacts, and personal histories.
Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center

Research family history relating to the Holocaust and explore the Museum's collections about individual survivors and victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos

Learn about over 1,000 camps and ghettos in Volumes I-III of this encyclopedia, which are available as a free PDF download. This reference provides text, photographs, charts, maps, and extensive indexes.

Further Your Research