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The Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin presents the year 1938 through the eyes of Jews, whose personal documents detail their experiences and the hardships they suffered as well as the growing tensions in Europe and diminishing hope for Jews in Germany and Austria.

Curated by Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin

Website and exhibition design by C&G Partners

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The Jewish community of Vienna faces its dissolution—700 years after the granting of the Privilege of Protection

Vienna

This photograph shows a picturesque bird’s-eye view of Vienna’s 1st municipal district. At the beginning of 1938, the Austrian capital was still home to almost 170,000 Jews and 80,000 members of mixed (Christian-Jewish) marriages. Jews made up about 10 percent of Vienna’s population. The majority of local Jews were well integrated into Austrian society: not only was German their native tongue, they also shaped the cultural and social landscape of the city. Among them were the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, the Albanologist Norbert Jokl, the author Friedrich Torberg, and the composer Arnold Schoenberg.

TAGS: ANSCHLUSS, FEBRUARY 3, JEWISH COMMUNITY, PHOTO, PROMINENT PEOPLE, VIENNA

SOURCE

Institution:

Leo Baeck Institute – New York | Berlin

Collection:

Vienna, Jewish Community Collection, AR 2432

Original:

F 24082

Website and exhibition design by C&G Partners

The following organizations have offered their materials for inclusion in the 1938 Projekt:

The following organizations have offered their materials for inclusion in the 1938 Projekt:

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Unprotected

The Jewish community of Vienna faces its dissolution—700 years after the granting of the Privilege of Protection

on the days before

February 2

Second opinion

February 1

Palestine

January 31

Vacation from the threat

The Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin would like to thank the following Cooperating Partners who contributed valuable resources to the production and maintenance of the 1938 Projekt:

The following organizations have offered their materials for inclusion in the 1938 Projekt:

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The Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin would like to thank the following Cooperating Partners who contributed valuable resources to the production and maintenance of the 1938 Projekt:

The following organizations have offered their materials for inclusion in the 1938 Projekt:

The Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin would like to thank the following Cooperating Partners who contributed valuable resources to the production and maintenance of the 1938 Projekt:

The following organizations have offered their materials for inclusion in the 1938 Projekt:

3

THURSDAY

Unprotected

The Jewish community of Vienna faces its dissolution—700 years after the granting of the Privilege of Protection

on the days before

February 2

Second opinion

February 1

Palestine

January 31

Vacation from the threat