Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien (VWI)

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

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.

Ordnung muss sein

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.

Press Release
Folder
Invitation Card

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.

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

VIDEOS: OPENING SPEECHES

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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

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Statement: Doron Rabinovici Writer .	Statement: Verena Pawlowsky Historian .	Statement: Arnold Dreyblatt Artist .
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Statement: Siegfried Mattl Historian .	Statement: Heimo Hammer Agency kraftWerk .	Statement: Hans Safrian Historian .
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Statement: Denise Rein Alt. Director, Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem	Statement: Peter Schwarz ESRA .	Statement: Michael Wladika Historian .
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Statement: Stephan Roth Historian .	Statement: Niko Wahl Historian .	Statement: Dirk Rupnow 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