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PROJECT INFORMATION
VIENNA WIESENTHAL INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES (VWI) |
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Latest information: January 12, 2010 The General Assembly of November 5, 2009, has elected a new Executive Committee at the recommendation of the individual Society Members. Chairman is Univ.Prof. Dr. Georg Graf, Professor of Civil Law at the University of Salzburg, re-elected as his first Deputy Chairman was Univ.Doz. Dr. Brigitte Bailer, Scientific Director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW), his second Deputy Chairman is Dr. Ariel Muzicant, President of the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG). Also re-elected were DI Georg Haber, Business Director of the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna and Univ.Doz. Dr. Bertrand Perz, Assistant Chairman of the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. Berthold Sandorffy was delegated as representative from the Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime. The Institute of Conflict Research with Univ.Prof. Dr. Anton Pelinka is no longer a Society Member. In the last years of his life, it was Simon Wiesenthal’s special concern to make his archive accessible for historical research and to be assured that the spirit of his work will be kept alive in a time where both the perpetrators and the victims of the National Socialist regime will have died. For this reason, as early as in 2002 the Jewish Community Vienna, together with numerous renowned institutions, started an initiative to establish an international Shoah research center in Vienna that is to bear the name of Simon Wiesenthal: This "Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI)", in the planning of which Simon Wiesenthal, who died in September 2005, was personally involved, is dedicated to research, documentation and information on issues regarding anti-Semitism, racism and the Holocaust - in continuation of the spirit of the lifework of Simon Wiesenthal. In this center, the Simon Wiesenthal Archive is to be combined with parts of the Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna.
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EVENT 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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EVENTS / VIDEOARCHIVE
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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MOURNING THE DEATH OF RAUL HILBERG (1926-2007)
The Jewish Community Vienna and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) are mourning the death of Raul Hilberg who passed away on August 4, 2007 after a serious illness.
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WEBSITE OF THE SIMON WIESENTHAL ARCHIVE WENT ONLINE The Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime founded by Simon Wiesenthal now has its own website which offers visitors an insight in the associations history, its holdings and in the work of Simon Wiesenthal and his staff. It is planned that the Simon Wiesenthal Archive will become an integral component of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI). Continue to homepage: www.wiesenthalarchiv.at
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EVENTS / VIDEOARCHIVE
Chamber of Labour of Vienna
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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EVENTS
Panel Presentation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
Washington D.C.
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THE PRESERVATION OF ARCHIVAL HOLDINGS
Since 2002 the Jewish Community Vienna (IKG Wien) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Washington (USHMM) work on a common project. The goal of the project is the preservation on to microfilm of the very extensive holdings of the Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna. The documents, which are currently kept in Jerusalem or in Vienna, consist for the most part of material out of the time period from 1933 to 1945. Until now up to 1.5 Million images have been taken in Jerusalem and around 500,000 in Vienna. Since October 2006, the project is also being presented on the homepage of the USHMM.
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EVENTS / VIDEOARCHIVE
CONFERENCE: JUNE 7-8, 2006 THE LEGACY OF SIMON WIESENTHAL FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES
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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