Victims of National-Socialism and Restitution (Austrian Consulate General, New York): Austria’s official information and services related to how the Republic of Austria acknowledges, supports, and provides restitution and compensation to victims of the National Socialist (Nazi) regime and their heirs. It’s a service the consulate offers to U.S. residents who are seeking information or assistance about these historical compensation and restitution programs.
Findbuch for Victims of National Socialism: This is one of the most comprehensive online resources, allowing searches across the holdings of several Austrian archives (e.g., Austrian State Archives, provincial archives of Burgenland, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Carinthia, and Tyrol). It includes approximately 130,000 records, such as “property notices” that Jewish people were forced to submit after the 1938 Anschluss, and files from post-war Restitution Commissions. It also digitizes historical address books and official handbooks to trace individuals, companies, and responsible authorities.
Arolsen Archives – International Center on Nazi Persecution: This center holds the world’s largest archive of documentation on Nazi persecution victims and survivors, with information on 17.5 million people. Its online archive is globally accessible and a vital source for researchers.
The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure – Austria (EHRI-AT): Connects archives, museums, commemorative organizations, and research institutions in the field of Holocaust research, documentation and education in Austria. EHRI-AT works towards making source material on National Socialist crimes in Austria findable and accessible through a digital research infrastructure.
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance: Education resource to learn about Austria’s efforts to advance education, remembrance, and research on the Holocaust and genocide of the Roma.
The Institute for Jewish History in Austria: Dedicated to comprehensive research into the history and culture of Jews within the relevant historical boundaries from the Middle Ages to the present day.
OeAD – ERINNERN:AT: Program for teaching and learning about National Socialism and the Holocaust and for the prevention of antisemitism through education. It promotes the transfer of historical and methodological-didactic knowledge into educational practice, as well as reflection on the causes of the Holocaust and its consequences for the present day.
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI): an international research and education centre in Vienna, Austria, dedicated to studying the Holocaust (Shoah), antisemitism, racism, nationalism, and related subjects through rigorous scholarship, documentation, and public outreach.
Austrian Heritage Collection (Leo Baeck Institute): a program whose specific goal is to document the history of Austrian-Jewish émigrés who fled to the USA or to (what is now) the State of Israel during the Nazi years, has been centered at the Leo Baeck Institutes in New York and in Jerusalem since 1996.
