Erzählte Geschichte

Approximately 800 interviews are transcribed. The tape cassettes (currently over 2,800 cassettes) of the interview collection were digitised in 2004 and thus secured for the future. Starring in 1982 the DÖW has been interviewing people in the course of the oral history project “Erzählte Geschichte” The collection includes life story interviews with approx. 1050 people. The Interviewees were born between 1890 and 1944 and participated in the resistance and/or were subjected to persecution in the period from 1934 to 1945. They report on the history of the 20th century from their perspective. The topics of the interviews include: First Austrian Republic, Anti-Semitism, Austro-Fascism, Resistance between 1934 and 1938, Resistance between 1938 and 1945, Spanish Civil War, “Anschluss” of Austria to Nazi Germany, Shoah, Disfranchisement of Jews, Deportation, Exile, The persecution of Carinthian Slovenes. The countries of exile of the interviewees include: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Bolovia, Brasil, Canada,, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong, Kong, Hungary, India, Indochina, Iraq, Italy, Ivory, Coast, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Marocco, Mauritius, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, North Africa, Palestine, Persia, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto, Rico, Rhodesia, Romania, Scottland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South, Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, United, Kingdom, Uruguay, USA, USSR, Yugoslavia.