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Language of Description: Czech
Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish
Country: Austria

  1. Memorbuch - Juden in St. Pölten

  2. Collection of Personal Effects

    The collection contains the personal effects of victims (e.g. glasses, toiletries, religious symbols, porcelain), waste materials from the daily operations of the institution (pots and pans, bottles, cups), and construction materials from the demolition of the Nazi euthanasia centre (clay bricks, fragments of white and red tiles, remains of electrical appliances).

  3. Biographical Collection

    The Documentation Centre Hartheim contains a collection of the personal documents and materials of the victims of the Nazi euthanasia that were provided to us by relatives and researchers. Where the relatives gave us permission to do so, we also show these documents in the exhibition station “Life traces”, where the victims can once more be seen as individual people with the diverse life stories.

  4. Documents Collection

    The collection contains sources and documentation on the general history of the National Socialist euthanasia programmes “T4” and “14f13” with a particular focus on the history of the Nazi euthanasia centre Hartheim. These are mostly copies or microfilms, but there are also some originals of contemporary documents.

  5. Photo Collection

    The collection contains photos from the history of the care home, from the Nazi era and from the renovation of Hartheim Castle in 1999–2003.

  6. KZ-Verband

    The “KZ-Verband” collection of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW) consists almost entirely of applications for membership to this “Alliance of Politically Persecuted” between 1946 and 1948. The forms filled in by applicants include personal data and information on family members as well as information on the reason for their arrest and the length of imprisonment in jails, ghettos and concentration camps. Most files also contain additional copies of documents on “Schutzhaft” (protective custody), confirmation of release or CVs and letters. In many cases photos of the appli...

  7. Autobiographical texts and documents in the archive of the Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft (TKG)

    Memoirs, memories and life history records by Paula Arnold, Margit Bartfeld-Feller, Bridget Bogard, Daisy Davidow-Bermann, Jolan Dehner, Bruno Frei, Peter Freund, Josef Friedler, Hans Friedmann, Alfred Frisch, Carry Hauser, Karl-Hans Heinz, Ferdinand Kaiser, Leo Katz, Valentin Pollak, Hans Schauder, Robert Schwarz, Willi Sheridan,Irene Spiegel, Gerda Spiegler and Walter Stein; Biographies of Heinz Carwin, Otto Koenig, Josef Luitpold Stern, Isa Strasser; Sketches by Tamar Radzyner; Radio scripts by Willy Miksch; Letters by Fred Bondi, Fritz Brügel, Walter Fischer, Therese Harpner, Gerda Hoff...

  8. Opferfürsorge

    • Victims' Welfare

    Der Bestand enthält die Antragsakten nach dem Opferfürsorgegesetz (vgl. BGBl Nr. 183/1947). Die Akten von noch lebenden Anspruchsberechtigten befinden sich noch im Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung (vgl. Opferfürsorge-Akten Tirol)

  9. Landesgerichtsakten, Verbrechen und Vergehen

    • State court records, crimes and offenses

    Der gesamte Bestand wurde dem Salzburger Landesarchiv von der für Verbrechen und Vergehen zuständigen Behörde, dem Landesgericht Salzburg, übergeben. Im Bestand der Landesgerichtsakten, Verbrechen und Vergehen wurden sämtliche im betreffenden Zeitraum angezeigten Kriminalfälle abgelegt.

  10. Arbeitsbücher

    • Workbooks

    Die Sammlung Arbeitsbücher im Vorarlberger Landesarchiv dokumentiert Arbeitsbücher von ausländischen und österreichischen (reichsdeutschen) Arbeitnehmern, die während der NS-Herrschaft und vereinzelt während der k.k. Monarchie in der Vorarlberger Wirtschaft tätig waren (16 Karteikästen mit Arbeitsbüchern aus- und inländischer Arbeitnehmer). Vgl. http://www.vorarlberg.at/pdf/rep_14-128arbeitsbuecher.pdf