ORGANISATION


VWI-ADMINISTRATION
VWI-CONTRIBUTORS
VWI-EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
VWI-WORKING GROUP
VWI-INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE
VWI-INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD
VWI-ORGANISATION CHART
VWI-CONCEPT


VWI-ADMINISTRATION

Dr. Béla Rásky (Business Manager)

Mag.a Greta Anderl (Office Management)

 

VWI-CONTRIBUTORS

The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies is a joint project of numerous Austrian organisations whose objective is to establish a centre in Vienna for social-political debate regarding anti-Semitism, racism and the Holocaust. The responsible body is the association Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI). The founding organisations are full members of this association. They are listed in the order of their founding dates:

Jewish Community Vienna (IKG)

Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime (BJVN – Simon Wiesenthal Archive)

Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DOEW)

Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna (IfZ)

Jewish Museum Vienna (JMW)

Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research (ITF)

Center of Jewish Culture History (ZJK), University of Salzburg

The cooperation partners include further national and international archives and research institutions, such as the Austrian State Archives, the Austrian National Library, the Vienna University Library, the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, all of which have offered their cooperation.

 

VWI-EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE


Chairman: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Georg Graf
(Institute of Civil Law, University of Salzburg)

Deputy Chairman: HR Univ.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Brigitte Bailer-Galanda
(Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance)

Deputy Chairman: Dr. Ariel Muzicant
(Jewish Community of Vienna)

Secretary: Univ.-Doz. Dr. Bertrand Perz
(University of Vienna, Institute for Contemporary History)

Deputy Secretary: Berthold Sandorffy
(Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime)

Treasurer: DI Georg Haber
(Jewish Museum Vienna)

Dr. Juliane Wetzel
(Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research)

Honorary Member: Ambassador Dr. Ludwig Steiner

 

VWI-WORKING GROUP

The Working Group of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute is composed of representatives of the founding organisations and further experts. It emerged from the Committee of Proponents that was set up on February 14, 2002.

Rosa-Maria Austraat (Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime)

HR Univ.-Doz. Mag. Dr. Brigitte Bailer-Galanda (Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance)

Mag.a Viola Eichberger (IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies)

Mag. Raimund Fastenbauer (Jewish Community Vienna)

DI Thomas Feiger (Architect)

Univ.-Doz. Dr. Florian Freund (University of Vienna, Institute for Contemporary History)

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Peter Gstettner (University of Klagenfurt, Institute for Pedagogics)

DI Georg Haber (Jewish Museum Vienna)

Dr. Birgitt Haller (Institute of Conflict Research)

Mag. Friedrich Herzog (Jewish Community Vienna)

Dr. Avshalom Hodik (Jewish Community Vienna)

Mag. Lothar Hölbling (Jewish Community Vienna, Holocaust Victims' Information and Support Center)

OR Dr. Peter Malina (University of Vienna, Institute for Contemporary History)

Univ.-Doz. Dr. Siegfried Mattl (University of Vienna, Institute for Contemporary History)

Dr. Lutz Musner (IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies)

Dr. Ariel Muzicant (Jewish Community Vienna)

Hon.-Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Neugebauer (Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance)

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Anton Pelinka (Institute of Conflict Research)

Univ.-Doz. Dr. Bertrand Perz (University of Vienna, Institute for Contemporary History)

Univ.-Doz. Mag. DDr. Oliver Rathkolb (University of Vienna, Institute for Contemporary History)

Ing. Reinhard Schuhmann (Designer)

OR Dr. Gustav Spann (University of Vienna, Institute for Contemporary History)

ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna, Institute for Contemporary History)

Ambassador Dr. Ludwig Steiner (Honorary Member)

Mag. Michaela Vocelka (Documentation Centre of the Association of Jewish Victims of the Nazi Regime)

Dr. Karl Albrecht-Weinberger (Jewish Museum Vienna)

o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ruth Wodak (University of Lancaster)

Dr. Ingo Zechner (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust-Studies (VWI), Business Manager)

 

VWI-INTERNATIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE

The International Steering Committee is to be seen as a temporary international academic advisory board for the founding stage of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute (VWI). Its role was to prepare a Mission Statement and to advise the Committee of Proponents in organisational matters and as concerns contents. For this purpose, an international meeting was held in Vienna on August 26 and 27, 2002. The Mission Statement was prepared and released at this meeting.
 

Prof. Omer Bartov (Brown University, Department of History, Providence)

Prof. Micha Brumlik (University of Frankfurt)

Prof. Dan Diner (Hebrew University, Jerusalem and University of Leipzig, Simon-Dubnow-Institute)

Univ.-Doz. Dr. Bertrand Perz (University of Vienna, Institute for Contemporary History)

   
VWI-INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD  

Dr. Peter Black (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.)

Prof. Gustavo Corni (Università degli Studi di Trento)

Dr. Susanne Heim (Institute for Contemporary History, Munich-Berlin)

Dr. Robert Graham Knight (Loughborough University, Leicestershire)

Dr. Éva Kovács (Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)

Prof. Peter Longerich (Holocaust Research Centre, University of London)

Prof. Robert Jan van Pelt (University of Waterloo, Ontario)

 

VWI-ORGANISATION CHART

Download: Textarchive, Organisation Chart of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), July 2008

VWI-CONCEPT

Download: Textarchive, Concept Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI), July 2008