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Life Stories

Edith Klar with her mother Esther Steiner, December 1938.
Autobiographical Recollections of Applicants

Support of projects

Poster of the movie "Auf Wiedersehen
The support of research and remembrance projects concerning the Holocaust

Art Database

Art Database
The Art Database of the National Fund

The new Austrian exhibition at Auschwitz

Entrance of the Austrian exhibition in Auschwitz
The redesign of the Austrian memorial in Auschwitz

15th Anniversary of the National Fund

Cover of the first volume of the anniversary publication "National Fund"
Two-volume anniversary publication of the National Fund

Annual Report 2008/09

Cover of the Annual Report 2008/09
Annual Report of the National Fund and the General Settlement Fund for 2008 and 2009 (PDF, 1.8 MB)

Decisions of the Arbitration Panel

Cover of Volume 4 of the series Decisions of the Arbitration Panel
Volume 4 of the Decisions of the Arbitration Panel for In Rem Restitution

National Fund for Victims of National Socialism

Open deadline gesture payments for victims of the National Socialist regime in Austria. Payments to approximately 30.000 applicants since 1995. MORE

General Settlement Fund

Compensation for property confiscation connected to persecution during National Socialism in Austria. More than 20.000 applications were filed by the end of the deadline on 28 May 2003. MORE

In Rem Restitution

Moveable assets of Jewish communal organizations and real estate were also among the assets seized under the National Socialist regime in Austria. MORE

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Hannah Lessing, Secretary General of the National Fund and Franz Josef, Austrian ambassador in Israel, Kuglitsch laid a wreath in the Hall of Remembrance (c) Yad Vashem

The National Fund of the Republic of Austria is honored by Yad Vashem

On 14 December 2011, the central Holocaust memorial site Yad Vashem in Jerusalem held a ceremony honoring the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism in recognition of its many years of support. more...


Further News

Francis Wahle at the festive event In the Aula on the campus of the University of Vienna (c) Michael Rausch-Schott

Recollecting Karl Wahle

On 11th October 2011, an event featuring the contemporary witness Francis Wahle was held to mark the 10th anniversary of the Arbitration Panel for In Rem Restitution and the presentation of volume 4 of its decisions. The following is a summary of the speeches. more...

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Heinz Mayer, Josef Aicher, Hannah Lessing, Francis Wahle and Franz-Stefan Meissel (from left to right) at the festive event in the Aula on the campus of the University of Vienna (c) Michael Rausch-Schott

From the Restitution Commissions to the Arbitration Panel

Recollecting Karl Wahle  Festive Event featuring a Discussion with a Contemporary Witness marking the tenth anniversary of the Arbitration Panel for In Rem Restitution and the publication of volume 4 of its decisions more...

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Some of the few remaining gravestones of the Jewish cemetery in Deutschkreutz, Burgenland (c) Hannah M. Lessing

The Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria Resolves the Funding of the First Projects

Jewish Cemeteries in Deutschkreutz and Stockerau are to be restored On 20 June 2011, the first funding for urgently needed restoration work on two run-down Jewish cemeteries was resolved in Parliament by the newly-established "Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria". more...

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Closing Payments of the General Settlement Fund

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