Postwar Jewish Community Vienna collection
Extent and Medium
141,443 digital images, TIFF
Archival History
Arkhiyon ha-merkazi le-toldot ha-ʻam ha-Yehudi
Acquisition
The Postwar Jewish Community Vienna Collection is a part of the official archive of the Jewish Community Vienna that was transferred for safekeeping in the 1950s and 1960s from Vienna to the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP), located in Jerusalem. While the collection is stored in Jerusalem, the Jewish Community Vienna remains the official owner of the materials.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archives Project in Feb. 2019..
Scope and Content
Records relating to the Jewish community Vienna in the immediate postwar period, including telephone and address books; electoral registers; correspondence with international organizations and individuals; case files; reports; questionnaires; financial records, and lists of survivors relating to searches for individuals, restitution, care of Jews, missing persons, Jewish refugees and DPs.
System of Arrangement
Arranged by subject files: General Administration files; Correspondence; The Care Department files; The International Committee for Jewish Refugees (Registers, statistics from DP camps,) Correspondence is organized partially alphabetically and partially by numbers.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien
Corporate Bodies
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
- United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
- World Jewish Congress
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Austria.
- Athens (Greece)
- Bregenz (Austria)
- Holocaust Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria--History.
- Austria--Politics and government--History--20th century.
- Emigration & immigration--Austria--20th century.
- Refugees, Jewish--Austria.
- Vienna (Austria)--Emigration and immigration.
- Bratislava (Slovakia)
- Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Austria.
- Kosice (Slovakia)
Genre
- Statistics.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Questionnaires.
- Protocols.
- Correspondence.
- Registers.
- Document
- Reports.