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Below you will find the press releases of the National Fund in chronological order, which you can subscribe to as RSS. All press releases of the National Fund since 2004 can be found in our press release archive. Here you will find high-resolution press photos.
For many years, the fact that the Nazis also persecuted people due to their sexual orientation was brushed under the carpet. Although homosexuality was also illegal prior to 1938 (Sec.129 Ib of the Austrian Penal Code had criminalised homosexual acts by both men and women, or “unnatural …
Vienna (PC) - The four contemporary witnesses Lily Ebert, Zwi Nigal, Karl Pfeifer and Liliana Segre were awarded the Simon Wiesenthal Prize for their engagement against antisemitism and for education about the Holocaust. Secondary prizes went to the Central Austrian Investigative Office for Post-War …
Next Wednesday, 4 May 2022, the President of the National Council, Wolfgang Sobotka, invites you to the presentation of the shortlist for the Simon Wiesenthal Prize in Parliament. The prize is awarded for the first time this year in memory of the architect, publicist and writer Simon Wiesenthal and …
In its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the General Settlement Fund determined by resolution that the Fund has completely fulfilled its tasks. The Fund is thus deemed dissolved as per 26 April 2022, pursuant to the General Settlement Fund Law.
The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism has published a “Visitors’ guide to the Jewish cemeteries in Austria”. The publication, which is available in German and English, was produced jointly with the Jewish religious communities and grassroots initiatives and …
At the end of 2020, the restoration work on the Jewish cemetery in Klosterneuburg reached completion: On 2 December, the work was approved in the presence of representatives from the Jewish Community Vienna, the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments, the Fund for the Restoration of the …
Dr. Kurt Hofmann, retired Vice-President of the Supreme Court and long-standing member of the Claims Committee of the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism, passed away on Saturday, 4 July 2020, at the age of 88.
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