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 …
On 15 October 2024 the Board of Trustees of the National Fund has decided on an area of thematic focus for its project funding from 2025 onwards in accordance with the National Fund Law. On the recommendation of the Committee, special focus will be placed on funding projects that serve to identify …
The first conference of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism will take a look back at the past and forward to the future, uniting them under one mantle. It will offer a comprehensive review of the work to come to terms with the Nazi era in Austria and shine …
The National Fund of the Republic of Austria has made a renewed gesture payment to over 3,300 Holocaust survivors from Austria living in 40 countries worldwide.
80 years ago, on the night of the second to third of August 1944, over 4,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz. It was a sad low point in the Nazi persecution, to which a total of 500,000 Roma and Sinti fell victim. In accordance with a decision by the European …