Metadata: Department of the federal state government of Vorarlberg III
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- National Archive of Vorarlberg
- Holding institution (official language):
- Vorarlberger Landesarchiv
- Postal address:
- Kirchstrasse 28; 6900 Bregenz
- Phone number:
- +43 5574 511 45 012
- Email:
- landesarchiv@vorarlberg.at
- Reference number:
- AVLReg III
- Title:
- Department of the federal state government of Vorarlberg III
- Title (official language):
- Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung III
- Creator/accumulator:
- Federal state government of Vorarlberg
- Date(s):
- 1945/2018
- Date note:
- ongoing
- Language:
- German
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection holds four files of interest. They can be found at AbtPräs 1947, Nr. 224, 266 and 834 respectively, and AbtPräs 1955, Nr. 570.
The first file contains some letters concerning the comité israélite, that was founded by displaced persons of Jewish origin in February 1947 in Bregenz.
The second one concerns the legalising of the shechita (after it was prohibited by the Nazis) in 1945 and the request of the Jewish community to the Landesregierung (state government), that it would relinquish some livestock for the shechita in 1947. The request was denied.
File number three contains a complaint of Rabbi Samuel Flesch. He applied for a permission to travel to Vienna in 1946. His application was incomplete and was therefore send back to the local authorities in Hohenems. Flesch managed to get hold of the enclosed letter and was upset by its wording, as the writer was using a vocabulary reminiscent of the Nazi administration. Therefore, Flesch filed a complaint with the Landesregierung (state government). The mayor of Hohenems was bewildered and reminded the Bezirkshauptmannschaft Feldkirch (district administration of Feldkirch) of the efforts of his community to provide the Jewish displaced persons (DPs) with food and shelter and complained about the ingratitude of these DPs towards the people of Hohenems. Beside the Flesch case, the file contains protocols of another confrontation between the citizens of Hohenems and the Jewish DPs.
The fourth file contains similar letters - mainly complaints, but also general correspondence concerning the provision of the Jewish DPs. This file also contains letters concerning the Jewish cemetery, smuggling, administrative questions and confrontations between Jewish DPs and locals from 1947 to 1955. It also contains a list of Jews (or at least people who were seen as Jews by the Nuremberg Laws) who fled Vorarlberg between 1938 and 1945.
- Archival history:
- The collection is still growing, because the government of the state of Vorarlberg is still depositing files there.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- After the end of the German occupation of Austria and the reestablishment of the republic and its federal states in 1945 the Amt der Vorarlberger Landesregierung (the department of the state government of Vorarlberg) was reestablished.
- Access, restrictions:
- No restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- The only finding aid are the Findbücher (finding aid books) in Bregenz.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht, Jewish Museum of Hohenems, 2017
