EXHIBITION: JULY 4 UNTIL OCTOBER 21, 2007 (EXTENDED UNTIL OCTOBER 28, 2007!)
ORDNUNG MUSS SEIN - THE ARCHIVE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY VIENNA


PHOTOS: EXHIBITION
PHOTOS: OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION
VIDEOS: OPENING SPEECHES
VIDEOS: STATEMENTS
CATALOGUE
PRESS RELEASE
LOCATION
ACCESSIBILITY OF THE ARCHIVE


In the beginning of June 2007, the Jewish Community Vienna for the first time presented its rediscovered Archive to the public. The presentation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. had already called a lot of attention in the run-up to its opening.


Around 2 million pages of the archival holdings whose total volume is even more comprehensive and documents a period of 300 years are directly connected with the Nazi area. Until recently it was assumed that the only basis for research on National Socialism and the Holocaust were the documents issued by the National Socialist authorities and by single perpetrators and the evidence of persons who survived or where murdered during that era. It was believed that the files of the Jewish communities had been destroyed to a large extent. The rediscovery of the files of the formerly largest German-speaking Jewish community, which are unrivalled in their completeness, opens up a new research perspective.

 

PHOTOS: EXHIBITION

PHOTOS: OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION

The exhibition was opened on June 3, 2007 by the Viennese City Council for Science and Culture Andreas Mailath-Pokorny.

Auditorium
Auditorium
Denise Rein, Lothar Hölbling
Denise Rein, Lothar Hölbling
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Alfred Stalzer
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny, Alfred Stalzer
Siegfried & Sylvia Mattl, Doron Rabinovici
Siegfried & Sylvia Mattl, Doron Rabinovici
Dr. Karl Albrecht-Weinberger
Karl Albrecht-Weinberger
Mag. Dr. Ingo Zechner
Ingo Zechner
Auditorium
Auditorium
Dr. Andreas Mailath-Pokorny
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny
Hölbling, Mailath-Pokorny, Zechner
Hölbling, Mailath-Pokorny, Zechner
Prokisch, Milchram, Kalwil, Krohn
Prokisch, Milchram, Kalwil, Krohn
Anton Pelinka
Anton Pelinka
Georg Haber
Georg Haber

VIDEOS: OPENING SPEECHES

Opening Speech:
Karl Albrecht-Weinberger
Director of the Jewish Museum Vienna
.

Opening Speech:
Ingo Zechner
Head of the Holocaust Victims'
Information Support Center of the Jewish
Community Vienna

Opening Speech:
Andreas Mailath-Pokorny
City Council for Science & Culture
.

VIDEOS: STATEMENTS

Statement:
Doron Rabinovici
Writer
.

Statement:
Dirk Rupnow
Historian
.

Statement:
Arnold Dreyblatt
Artist
.

Statement:
Siegfried Mattl
Historian
.

Statement:
Heimo Hammer
Agency kraftWerk
.

Statement:
Hans Safrian
Historian
.

Statement:
Denise Rein
Alt. Director, Central Archives for the
History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem

Statement:
Peter Schwarz
ESRA
.

Statement:
Michael Wladika
Historian
.

Statement:
Stephan Roth
Historian
 .

Statement:
Niko Wahl
Historian
 .

CATALOGUE

"Ordnung muss sein" - Katalog Katalog - Inhaltsverzeichnis

Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Lothar Hölbling and Ingo Zechner:
Ordnung muss sein - Das Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien
Vienna: Jewish Museum Vienna 2007, 198 Pages.
ISBN 978-3-901398-45-2
EUR 19,90

PRESS RELEASE

Download: Press Release: Die Gemeinde, September 2007:
"Ordnung muss sein. Das Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien"

Download: Press Release: kominform.at, September 29, 2007:
"Ordnung muss sein!"

Download: Press Release: Der Sonntag, July 29, 2007:
"Geordnetes jüdisches Leben"

Download: Press Release: guanhaes.net, July 27, 2007:
"Viena confronta a sua história do Holocausto"

Download: Press Release: NZZ, July 21, 2007:
"Die Phantome der Ordnung"

Download: Press Release: am.com.mx, July 12, 2007:
"Exhiben documentos de la era nazi en Viena"

Download: Press Release: spiegel.de, July 11, 2007:
"Vienna Confronts Its Holocaust History"

Download: Press Release: spiegel.de, July 9, 2007:
"Bürokratie in Zeiten des Terrors"

Download: Press Release : Profil, July 9, 2007:
"In jedem Fall trägt der Jude die Verantwortung"

Download: Press Release: Der Spiegel, July 9, 2007:
"Einzigartige Fundgrube"

Download: Press Release : Die Zeit, July 5, 2007:
"Das Archiv der Auslöschung"

Download: Press Release: Salzburger Nachrichten, July 4, 2007:
"Ausreiseziel? Egal, Hauptsache, es gibt Arbeit"

Download: Press Release: Kronen Zeitung, July 4, 2007:
"Überraschender Fund"

Download: Press Release: Der Standard, July 4, 2007:
"Gefundenes Gedächtnis einer Gemeinde"

Download: Press Release : Profil, July 2, 2007:
"Die Bürokratie der Opfer"

LOCATION

Jewish Museum Vienna
Palais Eskeles
Dorotheergasse 11
A-1010 Wien 

www.jmw.at

ACCESSIBILITY OF THE ARCHIVE

Since 2001 the rediscovered archival holdings have been safe-kept and processed by the Holocaust Victims’ Information and Support Center of the Jewish Community Vienna (www.restitution.or.at). Due to a lack of resources and user facilities, the Information and Support Center so far could grant only very limited access to the materials for members of the commissions and employees of various funds that are responsible for restitution and compensation matters. This has not changed yet. However, the archive of the Jewish Community Vienna is to become an integral part of the planned Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI). Together with the archives of Simon Wiesenthal the documents of the victims and the documentation about the perpetrators is to be made accessible for research and for the interested public under one roof.