Records of the Department of Anthropology of the Natural History Museum Vienna Akten der Anthropologischen Abteilung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien

Identifier
irn518579
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2006.323
  • RG-17.010M
Dates
1 Jan 1930 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518579

Extent and Medium

7,473 digital images, JPEG

5 microfilm reels, 35 mm

6 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.

Creator(s)

  • Maria Teschler-Nicola

Archival History

Das Naturhistorischen Museums Wien

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.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Jan. 2006.

Scope and Content

Contains documents and photographs relating to pseudoscientific racial studies performed by Josef Wastl and team of anthropologists at the Natural History Museum Vienna, including the physical measuring and examination of Jews in Vienna and Tarnó́w, persons of unclear racial lineage in Vienna, and POWs in various Stalags. Contains also more than four-hundred original three-part portrait photographs, taken as part of the racial science examinations of stateless Jews in the soccer stadium in Vienna in 1939, and over a one thousand color slides taken of POWs as part of examinations that took place in various Stalags. The records also feature communication with an anatomical institute in Poland pertaining to the requisition of skeletons and body parts from Jewish and Polish victims for research and exhibition.

System of Arrangement

Digital records organized in the following order: I. DVD 1: Korrespondenz 1930-1947; DVD 2: Inventare-Judenfriedhöfe; Stadion Juden-Gruppencharakteristika; Stadion Juden-Messblätter-1-2; Stadion Juden-Messblätter-2-2; II. DVD 1:Kahlich 1-2 Inv. Nr.2599 Kahlich 2-2 Inv. Nr.2599; Tarnow Kahlich Inv. Nr. 2600; Kriegsgefangene-Korres., Inv-Nr-2735; DVD 2: Kriegsgefangenen-Stadion-Protokol.-1-6; Rassenkundliche Untersuchungen(2623); III. DVD1:Anthropologisch-erbbiologische Gutachten 01-70; DVD 2: Anthropologisch-erbbiologische Gutachten 61-250 Arrangement is thematic

People

  • Wastl, Josef.

Subjects

  • War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.--Austria.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Austria.
  • Vienna (Austria)
  • Jews--Austria--History--20th century.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

Copies

  • Naturhistorisches Museum

    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Das Naturhistorischen Museums Wien