Women's Zionist Organization of Austria, Vienna Organisation "Zionistischer Frauen Österreichs", Wien (Fond 1192)

Women's Zionist Organization of Austria was established in 1898; in 1920 it became the Austrian branch of the Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO). The organization’s primary goals included dissemination of Zionist information, educational work among Jewish women, and fundraising in support of Jewish settlers in Palestine. In the 1930s, the organization was led by Sophie Lőwenherz. The organization had commissions on propaganda, culture, Keren Hanshim (the women’s fund), the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael fund, Totzeret Haaretz, youth affairs, and kibbutzim, as well as an economics section. There were three regional groups of WIZO in Austria in the 1920s and 1930s.

Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv

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 1192. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 1993.