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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.

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Hotel Métropole

A luxury hotel turned Gestapo quarters

Vienna

Situated on Morzinplatz in Vienna’s central 1st District, the Hotel Métropole had been built for the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873. The luxurious building, designed by architects Carl Schumann and Ludwig Tischler, boasted a magnificent dining room and a splendorous inner court. After the Annexation of Austria, the Gestapo confiscated the hotel from its Jewish owners, and on April 1, 1938, the secret police began operations in their new headquarters in Vienna. With a staff of 900, it was the largest of the Gestapo offices in the Reich. The first order issued from the new headquarters was to transport a group of Austrian prisoners to the Dachau concentration camp. This photograph shows a tablecloth used at Hotel Métropole in better days.


TAGS: ANSCHLUSS, APRIL 1, CONCENTRATION CAMPS, DACHAU, DISPOSSESSION, ECONOMIC PERSECUTION, IMPRISONMENT, JEWISH PROPERTY, NAZI POLICIES, PHOTO, VIENNA

SOURCE

Institution:

Jüdisches Museum Wien

Collection:

Tablecloth from Hotel Metropol

Original:

Inv. No. 20526

 

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