Nationalfund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
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The new Austrian exhibition at Auschwitz

15th Anniversary of the National Fund

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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View of the prisoners' barracks in the former extermination camp Birkenau ("Quarantine" section BIIa) (c) HBF

Amendment to the National Fund Law Provides Funding for the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial

The former concentration camp and present State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau is the most important international memorial to the crimes of the Shoah on the site of a former extermination camp. It is therefore also of vital importance to Austria that it be preserved for posterity. more...


Further News

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...

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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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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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