Metadata: Old auxiliary fund
Collection
- Country:
- Austria
- Holding institution:
- Archive of the Republic
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv der Republik
- Postal address:
- Nottendorfergasse 2, 1030 Wien
- Phone number:
- +43 01 79 540
- Web address:
- https://www.oesta.gv.at/
- Email:
- adr@oesta.gv.at
- Reference number:
- AHF
- Title:
- Old auxiliary fund
- Title (official language):
- Alter Hilfsfonds
- Creator/accumulator:
- Hilfsfund
- Date(s):
- 1955/1962
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 768 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains applications submitted between 1955 and 1962 by former members of the Jewish communities of Innsbruck, Meran and Hohenems for compensation for losses between 1938 and 1945. They include Leopold Adler, who had lived in Meran before the First World War and fled to Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was given 9,400 schillings as compensation in 1958. Alfred Graubart (recorded as Alfred Graubert), who lived in Innsbruck until 1938 and in Los Angeles after the war, was given 19,000 schillings in 1959. Writer and publisher Leopold Schwarz fled Vorarlberg in 1938 and emigrated to St Gallen, but was not granted any compensation after the war. Richard Schwarz, who lived in Innsbruck before the war, fled to Manchester, UK, and was given 50,000 schillings in 1958 for his wife and himself. Rudolf Tersch, who lived in Bregenz between 1933 and 1936, fled to Melbourne, Australia and was given 14,000 schillings in 1960. Carl Lampel, who was born in Bozen and fled to New York, received 7,500 schillings in 1960.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The collection includes documents concerning the Austrian auxiliary fund for politically persecuted people between 1934 and 1945. The fund was established in 1955 to benefit people who had fled Austria. The archive of the republic was established in 1983 and holds all documents produced by the ministries and their departments from the establishment of the Republic of Austria in 1918, covering the First and Second Republics, the era of Austrofascism and the period from 1938 to 1945, when Austria was part of the Third Reich.
- Access points: locations:
- Bregenz
- Hohenems
- Innsbruck
- Meran
- Vorarlberg
- Access points: persons/families:
- Adler, Leopold
- Graubart, Alfred
- Lampel, Carl
- Schwarz, Leopold
- Schwarz, Richard
- Tersch, Rudolf
- Access, restrictions:
- There are no restrictions on access.
- Finding aids:
- There is a online finding aid which can be searched by using keywords or consulting the structure of the archive.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://www.archivinformationssystem.at/suchinfo.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2018
