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 5 March 2025, Hannah Lessing, Managing Director of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism, was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour (“chevalier de la Légion d’honneur”) in Paris. The presentation of the insignia by Patricia Mirallès, Deputy Minister for …
In October 2025, the National Fund will once again offer a study trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial for teachers with the OeAD-Programm ERINNERN:AT and in cooperation with the Vienna University of Teacher Education. During the four-day study trip, teachers will get to know the memorial and the …
Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp was liberated by the Red Army 80 years ago. In the days and weeks preceeding the liberation, the Nazis set about evacuating the camp. Prisoners who had not been transferred to other camps within the Reich were sent out on death marches.
In the first few days of the new year, we sadly lost two Holocaust survivors: Maria Gabrielsen passed away in Norway on 4 January, just one day after her 91st birthday. One day later, on 5 January, Otto Nagler passed away in Israel at the age of 104. Both were born in Austria and forced to leave …
An eventful year is drawing to a close in 2024, which has brought a number of changes to the National Fund and the Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria. We take this opportunity to look back and look ahead to the coming year.
The Austrian Press and Information Service together with the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism is presenting the exhibition “From Repression to Remembrance” in English and German at the Austrian Embassy in Washington D.C.
The November pogroms, “Kristallnacht” or “Reichskristallnacht” were the riots against Jews and Jewish property in the German Reich on the night of November 9-10, 1938. These were presented as a “spontaneous” reaction of the population to the assassination attempt by the 17-year-old Jew Herschel …
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