Jewish Documentation Center

The Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi regime in Vienna was founded by Simon Wiesenthal.

History

Already in 1947, Wiesenthal with other persecuted Jews in Linz, the "Center for Jewish Historical Documentation ", which was closed in 1954. Wiesenthal sent the documents, " a ton of Jewish History ," by Yad Vashem. After the seizure of Adolf Eichmann, Wiesenthal founded in 1961 commissioned by the Jewish community of a new documentation center. According to political disputes with the SPÖ, he led the Documentation Centre in 1963 as part of the founded the " Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi regime."

In 1963, Wiesenthal also to make Karl Silberbauer locate in Vienna, which had the then 14- year-old Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam. Silberbauer worked hitherto unrecognized as a Viennese detective rayon inspector. His discovery was Wiesenthal's most difficult case, as also protected in Austria old Nazi cliques and helped. In 1967, he was the commandant of the concentration camp Treblinka, Franz Stangl, and 1987 in Brazil, the former commander of Przemysl ghetto, Josef Berger sponge.

Current Situation

Simon Wiesenthal, in consultation with the Jewish Community ( ICG ) his estate to the documentation center. It consists of a hand composed of an extensive collection of documents that Nazi criminals and Nazi crimes complexes ( about 8000 files in about 35 linear meters ). On the other hand, it also contains numerous documents for discussion of Wiesenthal with the Austrian domestic and foreign policy, as well as various testimonies of his commitment against oblivion. Since 2002, a detailed, digital recording of archival objects.

The " Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime " with its stock is now integrated as an independent organization in the " Vienna Wiesenthal Institute " ( VWI Vienna Wiesenthal Institute). Other sponsoring organizations are in addition to the Documentation Center and the Jewish Community Vienna ( ICG ), the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance ( DOeW ), the Institute of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna, the Institute for Conflict Research ( IKF ), the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK ), as well as the Jewish Museum Vienna ( JMW ). Chairman of the Innsbruck political scientist Anton Pelinka.