O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/26
• English, Hebrew
• pages 8 Research article Newspaper clippings Personal documents Official documentation Article Typewritten original Photo xerox
• Updated 10 years ago

Official documentation of the Klagenfurt Jewish community in the Carinthian District of the Kaernten Gau, 1937-1939 - Awarding of the Medal of Excellence to Nathan Kriegsfeld, the President of the Community by the Bundespraesident (President of the State), and letters of appreciation to Kriegsfeld, 1937; - Newspaper articles marking the event; - Newspaper article regarding the Jews of Kaernten written with antisemitic overtones; - Photographs of the local synagogue and cemetery; - Proposal for an agreement between the Church and the Jewish community regarding supervision over the local Jewi...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/260
• English, Hebrew
• pages 45 Memoir book Handwritten, original
• Updated 10 years ago

Memoir book belonging to Edith Schein, including signatures and dedications written to Edith by her girlfriends in Oberwart, Austria, 1933-1938 and in Vienna, September 1938 Comments by the submitter of the material (Amnon Finkelstein): Edith Rachel (Schein) Finkelstein was born in Oberwart, 1924 and made aliya to Eretz Israel, 1938. She was one of seven siblings. One of her sisters emigrated to England, 1938 and another sister emigrated to the United States, 1938. Her parents and the remainder of her siblings perished during the Holocaust.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/261
• English, Hebrew
• pages 27 Passport Typewritten Original
• Updated 10 years ago

Passport of Josza Kornitzer, born in Vienna, Austria, 1905, issued by the German Reich and stamped with the red letter "J", 22 August 1939 In the passport there is a visa to the United States dated 18 September 1939, and an exit visa from Vienna to Genoa, 07 December 1939.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/27
• English, Hebrew
• 1938-1944
• pages 24 Survey report Official documentation Original Typewritten copy
• Updated 10 years ago

Jewish and Zionist organizations in Austria, a description of the Holocaust of Austrian Jewry, surveys and reports - Proposal of a plan for organizing Jewish social work in Austria; - Proposal of a work plan and organizing the Zionistischer Landesverband fuer Oesterreich (National Zionist Association in Austria); - WIZO (Women's International Zionist Organization) activities report; - General survey regarding the Zionist Youth movements in Austria.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/28
• English, Hebrew
• 1927-1938
• pages 120 Legal documentation Official documentation Stencil Typewritten original Handwritten, original Print
• Updated 10 years ago

Official documentation of the Jewish community in Moedling regarding education, finances, appointments and more, 1927-1938 - Taxation, finances, appointments; - Merging of the Moedling, Liesing, and Bruck communities with the community of Vienna, November 1938; - Research of family genealogies for personal documentation; - Salary records of the community leaders. The file contains much authentic material that reflects community life with all its problems, for example, internal disagreements regarding planning Jewish studies.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/29
• English, Hebrew
• 1938
• pages 8 Survey report Official documentation Administrative documentation Typewritten original xerox
• Updated 10 years ago

Confiscation of real estate properties from Jews in the resort villages of Bad-Aussee and its surroundings and Aryanization of businesses in Ebensee - Real estate property in Bad-Aussee and its surroundings: lists of properties held by Jewish owners in the summer resort areas of Bad-Grundlsee, Altaussee, Ebensee, Mitterndorf, Puchen, Bad-Ischl and Aussee; the lists include a description of the property [summer homes under Jewish ownership], the names of the owners and their places of residence; - Legislated Aryanization of businesses owned by the Jews of Ebensee and exclusion of the Jews fr...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/3
• English, Hebrew
• 1939
• pages 67 Official documentation Survey report Original
• Updated 10 years ago

Umschichtungs-Aktion der Auswanderungsabteilung der Kultusgemeinde-Wien (Vocational retraining workshops maintained by the Emigration Department of the Jewish community in Vienna, 1939 The various courses; statistical data in numbers; photographs of vocational training course participants.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/30
• English, Hebrew
• pages 77 Administrative documentation Official documentation List of names Survey report xerox
• Updated 10 years ago

Lists of the Jews living in Bezirk III (Quarter 3) in Vienna Alphabetical list of names of the Jews living in Bezirk III (Quarter 3) in Vienna including: address, profession and birth date. Note: The letters "em" appear in the column labeled "Fate" (Schicksal) next to some of the names; the validity date of the information is not given.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/31
• English, Hebrew
• pages 28 Official documentation Survey report Original
• Updated 10 years ago

Unser Fuersorgewerk - Mitteilungen der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde - Wien 1930 (Activities report publisheded by the Vienna Jewish community in the area of welfare and social assistance for children and needy adults, establishment of kindergartens and developing them, hospitalization of the elderly and counseling for the youth, 1930) The report is organized in the form of a bound booklet with background, illustrative pictures and advertisements. Note: Some of the pages of the booklet have been clipped.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/32
• English, Hebrew
• pages 9 Official documentation Research article Article Original
• Updated 10 years ago

Draft for an article entitled, "Death Throes of a Great Community", Vienna, 1938 Description of the condition of the Jews of Vienna in the wake of the Anschluss (annexation to Germany); matters pertaining to anti-Jewish legislation; confiscation of property; travel restrictions; arrests and detention in concentration camps; economic decrees. The author of the article forsees the complete physical annihilation of Judaism. The name signed at the end of the article is Isas.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/33
• English, Hebrew
• pages 10 Official documentation Protocol Original
• Updated 10 years ago

Notes to the memorandum, "Bemerkungen zum Gedenkprotokoll", of Dr. J. H. Koerner, SA regarding events among the leadership of the Jewish community of Vienna and Austrian Jewry, 1926-1937 Notes on the memorandum of Dr. J.H. Koepness regarding events among the leadership of the Jewish community of Vienna and Austrian Jewry, 1926-1937; - The main body of the memorandum deals with the question of the involvement of the leaders in Chancellor Karl Schuschnigg's struggles against the takeover of Austria by Germany and Schuschnigg's appeal to the Jews of Austria to provide financial and political a...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/34
• English, Hebrew
• pages 443 Survey report List of murdered persons Official documentation Typewritten copy xerox
• Updated 10 years ago

Weekly reports submitted by the Chairman of the Jewish Community, Dr. Josef Loewenherz, to the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna The reports deal with emigration matters including statistical data, the condition of the community, and troubles regarding financial resources and logistical problems adversely affecting an increase in the rate of emigration to the South American countries. - Report of discussions with Adolf Eichmann and Theodor Dannecker regarding emigration; - Directive from Berlin regarding a halt in aliya to Eretz Israel, May 1940; - Complaints from the Hanseatis...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/35
• English, Hebrew
• pages 31 Survey report Official documentation Typewritten copy xerox
• Updated 10 years ago

Statistics regarding the Jews of Germany, Ostmark and the Protectorate, and anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1941 - Statistical data regarding the Jews of Germany, Austria and Bohemia-Moravia (the Protectorate), 1933-1941, presented by Dr. Josef Loewenherz, the head of the Jewish community in Vienna to Adolph Eichmann, Director of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna. The statistics include: the financial situation of the community, the population, organizations, emigration, spread of the ages, professional retraining and an estimate of the value of personal property. The statist...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/36
• English, Hebrew
• pages 18 Official documentation Administrative documentation xerox
• Updated 10 years ago

NSDAP (Nazi party) and Gestapo documentation regarding travel permits, arrests, confiscation of property of the Jewish community and its library and looting the contents of synagogues during the Novemberaktion (November "Aktion"), 1938 Nazi documentation regarding the Novemberaktion, 1938: - Arrests of Jews following the Kristallnacht riots among the Jews of St. Poelten; the Eichgraben vocational training camp and the Talheim vocational camp; confiscation of the archives of the Jewish community of Vienna; issuing of passports; detention of Jews with a previous conviction in the Dachau conce...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/37
• English, Hebrew
• pages 11 Official documentation Typewritten original xerox
• Updated 10 years ago

Nazi documentation regarding Judenumsiedlung (Resettlement of Jews) and seizing real estate belonging to the Jewish community of Vienna for the needs of the Waffen-SS In the file: - Written notices from the Gauleitung (Area Administration) of Vienna regarding an operation to evict the Viennese Jews from their apartments which would then be handed over for the use of [Nazi] party members; Gestapo opposition to the initiative taken by the party in this matter; continuation of the "Aktion" could be carried out only through the Wohnungsant (Office for Residential Matters); - Correspondence betw...

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/38
• English, Hebrew
• 1826-1938
• pages 7 Official documentation Survey report xerox
• Updated 10 years ago

Residential census of the Jewish community of Vienna , 1826-1938 Registration of birth books, marriages and deaths by the year; various files from the archives of the Jewish community in Vienna including the office supplies; the material was handed over to the Reichsstatthalter in Gemeindeverwaltung (the local Reich governor) in Vienna by the community for safekeeping and administration according to an official regulation, 03 June 1940.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/39
• English, Hebrew
• pages 479 Official documentation List of deportees Typewritten copy Original
• Updated 10 years ago

Alphabetical lists of Austrian Jews deported to Theresienstadt, and lists of transports to Warsaw, Piaski, Lublin and other places, without the names of the deportees , 1942-1945 The lists include: the names of the deportees, transport symbol and number, arrival date, birth and death dates. Also in the file; General lists (without names) of transports that departed to Warsaw, Piaski, Lublin, Izbica, Riga, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka, Trawniki, Sobibor and Zamosc.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/4
• English, Hebrew
• pages 10 Official documentation Survey report Stencil
• Updated 10 years ago

Expense and income report of the Jewish community of Vienna, September-October, 1938 (The Household of the Jewish Community Vienna for the Months of September and October 1938) Expense and income report of the Jewish community of Vienna regarding emigration, soup kitchens, vocational training, schools, administration and religious services; the report includes a situation evaluation regarding community activities (in English), September-October, 1938.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/40
• English, Hebrew
• pages 160 Official documentation List of murdered persons Original
• Updated 10 years ago

Totenbuch Theresienstadt Deportierte aus Oesterreich (Record Book of Austrian Deportees Who Perished in Theresienstadt) - Memorial book in memory of the Jews of Austria who perished in Theresienstadt;, including the names of those perished in alphabetical order, designation and code of the transport, birth dates and arrival dates in Theresienstadt. The book was published by the Jewish Committee for Theresienstadt in Vienna.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/41
• English, Hebrew
• pages 4 Official documentation Survey report Original
• Updated 10 years ago

The Jewish community in Sankt Poelten, from the annexation to Germany, November 1938 to the middle of May 1940 Jewish life in Sankt Poelten during the time of the Anschluss (Annexation to Germany); restrained attitude of the population towards the Jews including the local Nazi party leadership; turning point for the worst, 10 November 1938: harassment, arrests and forceful eviction of the Jews from their apartments, imprisoning of people aged 20-60 in Dachau; destruction of the contents of the synagogue including equipment and religious articles, the library and community files, 11 November...