Records of the Israelitische Allianz, Vienna "Israelitische Allianz", Wien (Wohltätigkeitsverein) (Fond 675)
Extent and Medium
3 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm
228 digital images, JPEG
Creator(s)
- Israelitische Allianz zu Wien
Biographical History
The Israelitische Allianz was created as a branch of the Paris-based Alliance Israelite Universelle. The Allianz aided Jews who were being oppressed by the authorities in the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, and Jews in the Balkan countries, organized Jewish schools, provided assistance to victims of pogroms in Russia, and to emigrants form Easter Europe countries, and cooperated with other Jewish charitable organizations. The organization was liquidated after Austrian Anschluss in 1938.
Archival History
Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 675. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 1993.
Scope and Content
The collection contains letters and correspondence with other Jewish organizations; minutes of the Council of the Alliance in Vienna and the Joint Foreign Committee of the Israelite Alliance in London; reports from neighboring countries including those of the Portuguese Marranos Committee, French organizations, the Netherlands, and Belgium; correspondence from 1935 to 1936 about the release of a film entitled "Process of Millennium" about the persecution of Jews; correspondence about arranging public canteens from 1936 to 1938; financial statements and minutes of the organization’s board; lists of members and persons receiving grants as well as files of donations to the organization and purchase of land; memoranda by Jewish communities to the League of Nations, appeals requesting aid for Jewish refugees; clippings from newspapers and journals, the copies of issues of various Jewish journals, newspaper, bulletins, books and pamphlets. There are also manuscripts of works on historical, philosophical, and theosophical subjects originating from materials of other institutions. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.
System of Arrangement
Fond 675 (1872-1939). Opis 1-2; Delo 1-783. Selected records arranged in three series: 1. Correspondence, minutes, and reports; 2. Bulletins, newspapers and clippings; 3. Activity reports of the Associations, 1929-1931; 4. Name lists of members of the association, Jewish refugees, and other lists. Note: Location of digital images; Partial microfilm reels: 96-97, 188; Reel 96: Reel start-Reel end; Reel 97: Reel start-Image #225; Reel 188: Image #112-1871.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv
People
- Israelitische Allianz zu Wien
Corporate Bodies
- League of Nations
Subjects
- Austria--Ethnic relations.
- Europe--Politics and government--20th century.
- Jews--Persecution--Europe--History--20th century.
- Vienna (Austria)
- Jews--Persecutions--Germany--History--20th century.
- Jewish committees (ushmm)
- Jewish refugees--Europe--History--20thy century.
- Austria--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
- Marranos--Portugal--History--20th century.
Genre
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Financial records.
- Correspondence.
- Registers.
- Document
- Reports.
- Bulletins.