On 10 November 2025, a ceremony will be held at the Austrian Parliament to mark the 30th anniversary of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism.
Today, 1 October, the annual memorial service at the Hartheim Castle Learning and Memorial Centre is being held to commemorate the 30,000 men, women and children who were murdered there as part of the Nazi "euthanasia" programme. Among the victims were people with disabilities and mental illnesses, …
The Swiss Gamaraal Foundation was awarded the Main Prize of the 2024 Simon Wiesenthal Prize in Parliament last Thursday evening. The Second President of the National Council and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, Peter …
On 18 June 2025, the National Fund presented two new publications, the “Final Report of the Arbitration Panel for In Rem Restitution” and Volume 8 of the “Decisions of the Arbitration Panel” at the Juridicum building of the University of Vienna in Vienna. The speeches held at the event are …
On 2 August 2025, the National Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma will commemorate the horrific crimes committed against Roma and Sinti during the Second World War.
The Peršmanhof in Bad Eisenkappel is an important place of remembrance of the crimes perpetrated by thee Nazi regime, in particular of the massacre of eleven members of a Carinthian-Slovene family who were brutally murdered there in April 1945.
The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism and the House of Austrian History warmly invite you to the presentation of Volume 8 of the book series "Lives Remembered. Life Stories of Victims of National Socialism", published by the National Fund, with a focus on …
On 11 July 2025, our travelling exhibition "From Repression to Remembrance" was opened at the Páva Street Synagogue in Budapest as part of the Centropa Summer Academy 2025.
Thirty years ago today, the Law on the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism was promulgated, having entered into effect on 27 April 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence from Nazi Germany and, with it, the restoration of the …
The Board of Trustees of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism and the Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries met today for the first time in the current legislative period under the chairmanship of the Second President of the National Council, …