Copyright Holder: Österreichisches Staatsarchiv

Copyright Holder: Österreichisches Staatsarchiv

Records of seven former Jewish communities of the Austrian state of the Burgenland, which were disbanded after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany. The material consists of official correspondence, protocols of Jewish community board meetings, marriage, birth and death records, decrees, Jewish community records, school records, tax records, military records, records pertaining to Jewish organizations ...

Contains information about German annexation of Polish land through the years; German colonization in Poland and Eastern Europe; "race science"; population statistics for Kraków, Poland, through the years; birth statistics for several Polish towns and villages; activities of Einsatzgruppen; statistics for Catholic churches in the Kraków area; and the history of the Polish nobility from circa 1300 ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of Eric Curzon and his wife Käthe (née Kupferberg), &nbsp;Jewish refugees who met in London after they had both fled Nazi German persecutions in their home towns of Vienna and Leipzig.</p>Personal papers including Eric Curzon's documents such as qualifications; Heimatschein; birth, police clearance and naturalisation certificates; last will and testament; ...

The collection primarily documents the immigration experiences of the Deutscher family as they fled Vienna, Austria after its annexation by Germany in 1938. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, and death certificates; identification papers; and a small amount of restitution papers. The immigration papers include Efraim and Beile Deutscher’s documentation from Italy, and Erwin and Henia Deutscher’s ...

The Schillinger and Baumann family papers document Marie and Samuel Schillinger and their children Jan and Jiri’s efforts to emigrate from Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) to the United States after its annexation by Germany in 1938. The papers document their trip on the MS St. Louis from Hamburg, Germany to Havana, Cuba; their relocation to the Heijplaat refugee camp in the Netherlands; ...

The fonds contains interesting documents pertaining to the persecution of Jews in years 1938-1944. One file pertains to the case of the return of Jewish inhabitant previously deported from the village in 1938. The fonds also contains the Ruling on reporting Jewish businesses after the adoption of the law on the exclusion of Jews from public and economic life. There are also various documents from 1940 ...

At the time of the Anschluss, Walter Nitsche was 20 years old and a student at the Höhere Staats-Gewerbeschule at Schellinggasse 13 in Vienna's 1st district. He graduated from school in June 1938 and shortly thereafter took up a job as a local construction supervisor at the "Road Administration of the Province of Lower Austria." At the end of November 1938, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht. Walter ...

The Max Vielgut papers consists of documents and correspondence related to Max Vielgut, a musician originally from Vienna, Austria. The papers include his correspondence from pre-war Vienna, from the period after his escape to Belgium, as well as in France, where he was interned in various concentration camps, including Saint-Cyprien and Gurs.

Big crowd mourning, (German) women in tears, talking; Nazi speaker heard. People in courtyard silently heiling. Pan, women cries as she heils. Sad faces of children and women boarding streetcar. Men on bicycles rush down street, men with QF ruined room. Border, gate going up, grinning Nazis on horseback go through. Lots of marching Nazis, heiling (hesitant). Nazis on carts, peasant women, flowers, ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Lilly Drukker

Artwork by Dave Fox with images from his memories of Vienna from his childhood. Dave Fox was born in Vienna in 1920, where he lived until shortly after the annexation of Austria in 1938. He escaped via the German-Belgian border, seeking refuge in Belgium. He arrived in the U.S. in December 1939 and settled in Los Angeles. During WWII he served in the US Army in the Philippines and Japan. Returning ...

This collection contains correspondence from the parents of Robert Löbl concerned with his safe custody in the UK. Also contained are photographs of Robert and printouts of Pages of Testimony from Yad Vashem Shoah Victims’ Database.&nbsp;

Documentation of the Bundeskanzleramt (Office of the Prime Minster) in Vienna&#x0D; &#x0D; The collection contains files on various subjects, before and after the Anschluss (annexation of Austria to Germany): files regarding Nazi, anti-Nazi and Socialist propaganda in various places (based on reports from the Austrian Embassies), the Vaterländische Front (the Austrian Party in power until the Anschluss), ...

Otto Heilig, a Czech Jew, was an employee of the Bata Shoe Company in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, prior to 30 Sept. 1938. Heilig also was a reserve officer in the Czechoslovak Army. He later resided in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.</strong></span></p><p>This collection contains minutes, reports, speeches and correspondence of the Evian conference and its various sub-committees.</p>

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The Szabo family papers document the Holocaust experiences of the Szabo family of Vienna, Austria, including Viktor Szabo’s imprisonment in Dachau after Kristallnacht, his death in Zasavica in 1941, his daughter Nelly Szabo Ullman’s account of Kristallnacht, and her immigration to the United States in May 1939. Material related to Nelly Szabo Ullman consists of a handwritten account in German of the ...

Benjamin Murmelstein (1905-1989), a rabbi and intellectual, became head of the emigration department of the welfare office of the Jewish Community Vienna after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany and the reopening of the Jewish community under Nazi control on May 2, 1938. In that capacity, Murmelstein worked closely with Adolf Eichmann and the Central Office for Jewish Emigration. After his deportation ...

Oscar Stein was born in Vienna in 1923, one of three children of Baruch and Serena Stein. Following the German annexation of Austria and the imposition of its anti-Semitic policies, some members of Oscar's family began to explore the possibility of immigration to Palestine. Oscar had begun working at the Palästina Amt, or Palestine Bureau, where he occasionally read and copied poetry from undergroud ...

Memoirs of a Jew (b. 1932) from Kovno. She endured the annexation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, and later the invasion of Hitler's troops. Her father was deported by the Nazis, and the rest of the family was interned in the ghetto. Thanks to the cleverness of her mother, who pretended that her daughter was older than she really was, they remained together; she escaped several selections, but had ...

Peter (Pesach) Kosskowsky (1872-1939) was born July 4, 1872 in Pinsk, Russia (now Belarus). He and his first wife, Gitel (d. 1913), had two daughters. Schifra Kossowsky was born in 1903 in Yekaterinoslav, Russia (now Dnipro, Ukraine). We do not know the name of their second daughter. The Kossowsky family relocated to Vienna while Schifra was young. After Gitel’s death in Vienna in 1913, Peter married ...