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During a routine inspection in 2000 of one of its older buildings, officials of the Jewish community Vienna (IKG) found a vacant apartment filled with documents in wooden cabinets and 800 cardboard boxes, covered with decades of dirt, dust, and mold. Some of these materials are part of a cache of approximately two million pages of Holocaust-era documents. These reports, letters, emigration and financial documents, deportation lists, card files, books, photographs, maps, and charts detail the final years of the Viennese Jewish community. They represent a substantial and long-forgotten part of the archive of what was once the largest German-speaking Jewish community in Europe. In 2002, the Museum and the IKG agreed to jointly rescue these materials and make them available to the public in Vienna and at the Museum in Washington. Welcome: Sara J. Bloomfield, Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) Roundtable Chair: Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Senior Program Officer, University Programs Division, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Panel Participants: Ingo Zechner, Director, Holocaust Victims’ Information and Support Center,Vienna, Austria Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Chief Curator, Jewish Museum Vienna, Austria Anatol Steck, Program Officer, International Archival Programs Division, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, USHMM Walter B. Feiden, Holocaust survivor from Vienna currently living in New York, NY, and recently featured on the CBS 60 Minutes broadcast “Revisiting the Horrors of the Holocaust” This roundtable discussion was supported by the Helena Rubinstein Foundation.
Download: Press Release: The New York Times, June 2, 2007:
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