Vienna Jewish Community: Archives

The Archive of the Jewish Community (IKG) of Vienna was officially founded in 1816, when the Council of Representatives of Vienna’s Jews decided to establish an archive in order to gather and process regularly produced official documents. Nevertheless it took another thirty years for it to become an institutional archive. From the 1840s onwards the records are mostly continuous, pointing out institutional concerns of a religious community with increasing educational and social functions. During the 19th century the Archive was professionally organized and until the 1920s the records were catalogued by subject terms and individual names. Archival Material in Moscow: In 1938/39 Jewish associations, foundations and organizations of the IKG were dissolved and expropriated by the Nazis. In 1939 the confiscated archival records and manuscripts were transported to Berlin and later on, 1943, to Silesia.  After the end of the war the Red Army discovered the documents, transferred them to Moscow and stored the archival material (more than 2,580 fascicles and 66 Jewish manuscripts of Jewish associations, foundations and organizations) in the so-called Special Archive (Osobyi). This collection is digitised version of the microfilm copy of the above.

Donated 5.1.2022

Donor: CAHJP