New digital archives show Vienna Jews' efforts to escape before WWII
The archive contains the then-200,000-strong Jewish community’s filings as they attempted to get visas and flee Austria before World War II began.
The entrance of the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial bearing the names of 64,000 Austrian Jews who were killed in the Holocaust is seen ahead of its opening in Vienna, Austria November 9, 2021. (photo credit: REUTERS/LISI NIESNER)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFFUpdated:
