Monograph on the restitution case Raoul Korty

in German:
Monographie zum Restitutionsfall Raoul Korty

 

Raoul Korty, born in 1889 as son of a Jewish banking family, had a passion for collecting from a early age. The loss of his livelihood and the separation from his non-Jewish wife in 1938 probably also led to the failure of his plans to emigrate. In 1944, Korty was arrested in Vienna and murdered in Auschwitz at the end of the same year. The restitution case regarding his photo collection was one of the biggest and most complex of the Austrian National Library. The publication appeared as a accompaniment to the exhibition in the festival hall of the Austrian National Library in February 2008, in which the case was presented to a wider public.

in German:
Raoul Korty, 1889 geborener Sohn einer jüdischen Bankiersfamilie, war von frühester Jugend an durch seine Sammelleidenschaft geprägt. Der Verlust seines Lebensunterhalts und die Trennung von seiner nichtjüdischen Ehefrau 1938 führten wohl auch zum Scheitern seiner Emigrationspläne. Korty wurde 1944 in Wien verhaftet und Ende desselben Jahres im KZ Auschwitz ermordet. Der Restitutionsfall der Fotosammlung Raoul Korty war einer der größten und komplexesten der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Die geplante Publikation erscheint begleitend zur Ausstellung im Prunksaal der ÖNB im Februar 2008, in der dieser Fall einer breiten Öffentlichkeit präsentiert wird.

Austrian National Library

in German:
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB)

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23 Oct 2007

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