Documentation Center of the Association of Jews Persecuted by the Nazi Regime
The Documentation Center of the Association of Jews Persecuted by the Nazi Regime in Vienna was founded by Simon Wiesenthal .
history
As early as 1947, Wiesenthal and other Jewish victims of persecution founded the “Center for Jewish Historical Documentation” in Linz, which was closed in 1954. Wiesenthal sent the documents, "over a ton of contemporary Jewish history", to Yad Vashem .
After Adolf Eichmann's capture , Wiesenthal founded a new documentation center in 1961, commissioned by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde. After political disputes with the SPÖ , he headed the Documentation Center from 1963 onwards as part of the "Association of Jews persecuted by the Nazi regime" which he founded.
Current situation
In consultation with the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG), Simon Wiesenthal made his estate available to the Documentation Center. On the one hand, it consists of an extensive collection of documents on Nazi perpetrators and Nazi crime complexes (around 8,000 files in approx. 35 running meters). On the other hand, it also contains numerous documents on Wiesenthal's dispute with Austrian domestic and foreign policy, as well as a wide variety of testimonies to his commitment against forgetting. A detailed digital recording of the archive objects has been carried out since 2002.
The “Documentation Center of the Association of Jews Persecuted by the Nazi Regime” and its holdings are now integrated into the “ Wiener Wiesenthal Institute ” ( VWI-Vienna Wiesenthal Institute ) as an independent organization . In addition to the Documentation Center and the Israelite Cultural Community of Vienna (IKG), other supporting organizations are the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW), the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna , the Institute for Conflict Research (IKF), the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) and the Jewish Museum Vienna (JMW). The chairman is the Innsbruck political scientist Dr. Anton Pelinka.