Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

EVENTS

THIRD SIMON WIESENTHAL LECTURE: DECEMBER 18, 2008
PAUL A. SHAPIRO: OPENING THE ARCHIVES OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE HOW DID IT HAPPEN? WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

The archives of the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, contains over 50 million World War II era documents relating to the fates of over 17.5 million people. Using samples and case studies, Paul Shapiro, who led the campaign to open the archives, provided an insider’s view of the years-long effort to open the collections for research and discussed the importance of this recent event for Holocaust survivors, other victims of National Socialism, and scholars.

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

From July 4 to October 21, 2007 the Jewish Museum Vienna showed for the first time an exhibition about the archive of the Jewish Community Vienna.

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HOLOCAUST STUDIES CONFERENCE: JUNE 27 UNTIL JUNE 29, 2007
LABOUR AND EXTERMINATION

Chamber of Labour of Vienna
Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)

In cooperation with: Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna (IfZ) and Jewish Community Vienna (IKG)

Under the auspices of: Federal President Heinz Fischer

Videorecordings of the opening speeches of Herbert Tumpel, Anton Pelinka, Charlotte Knobloch, Heidrun Silhavy, Bertrand Perz and the presentations of Ulrich Herbert, Dieter Pohl, Elizabeth Harvey, Patricia Heberer, Florian Freund, Manfred Grieger, Harald Welzer, Christian Streit, Peter Klein, Gustavo Corni, Andrea Löw, Eleonore Lappin and Frank Stern as well as the discussions are available on this website!

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PANEL PRESENTATION: JUNE 7, 2007
RESCUING THE EVIDENCE - THE ARCHIVE OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY VIENNA

Panel Presentation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.

Place: Helena Rubinstein Auditorium, Museum

Download: Press Release: The New York Times, June 2, 2007: "A Nation’s Lost Holocaust History"

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"Spurensicherung" - Das Archiv der IKG Wien

FIRST SIMON WIESENTHAL LECTURE: MARCH 8, 2007
OMER BARTOV: THE LAST DAYS OF BUCZACZ - PERSPECTIVES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF A MULTIETHNIC TOWN

This lecture discussed the ways in which Ukrainians, Poles, and Jews remember the Holocaust in the formerly multiethnic town of Buczacz, Simon Wiesenthal's birthplace (as well as that of the speaker's mother).

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CONFERENCE: JUNE 7-8, 2006
THE LEGACY OF SIMON WIESENTHAL FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES

In order to promote the foundation of the new Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies two founding member institutions – the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna and the International Research Center for Cultural Studies – organized an international conference dealing with major research issues in the field of Holocaust Studies. In particular the conference addressed Simon Wiesenthal’s 1966 memorandum to the Austrian Government, in which he identified the most important crimes of the Nazi regime as agenda for legal proceedings against Austrian perpetrators.

The video recordings of the lectures of David Bankier, Atina Grossmann, Isabel Heinemann, Christian Gerlach, Peter Black, Wlodzimierz Borodziej, Michael Wildt, Omer Bartov, Tom Segev, Bertrand Perz and Raul Hilberg can be watched in the video archive.

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