Archival Letters

Letters by victims and survivors of National Socialism, written between 1938-1945, and representing Jews, Roma, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, physically disabled and mentally ill, Slovenian Carinthian resisters, and Catholic dissidents were collected from Austria, the US, the UK, Israel, Argentina, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. These letters were written in German, transcribed and translated into English, and organized into folders by a staff of 18 volunteers. A selection of these letters has been released for publication on this web site. These letters are to be used for educational purposes. The 38 sites, the research pertaining to the sites written in German and English, the oral history interviews, holocaust curricula, guided tours of the sites, contemporary commentary in the form of a performance art program, and now these letters, provide visitors and students with an integrated picture of what took place on the streets of Vienna and in other regions of the Austrian territory, between 1938-1945.

If new applications or lessons for these documents develop, please send Karen Frostig the link and permission to post on the web site.

Letters will be uploaded on this page over the next month.

DISSIDENTEN

Hermine Zaynard

  1. Information form
  2. Cover sheet
  3. Original letter
  4. German transcription
  5. English translation

Johann Gaster

  1. Information form
  2. Cover sheet
  3. Original letter
  4. German transcription
  5. English translation

Walter Rozicka

  1. Information form
  2. Cover sheet
  3. Original letter
  4. German transcription
  5. English translation

EUTHANASIE OPFER

Dora and Hugo Deutsch

  1. Information form 
  2. Cover sheet
  3. Original letter
  4. German Transcription
  5. English translation 

HOMOSEXUELLE

Josef and Annelise Kohout, from US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Wilhelm Kroepfl http://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1942-1945/letter-to-commandant-of-flossenbuerg-camp; translated by Margret Vince.

  1. Cover sheet
  2. Original letter
  3. German transcription and English transcription

JUEDINNEN UND JUDEN

Arthur Hass

  1. Cover sheet
  2. Original postcard 1
  3. Original postcard 2
  4. German and English  transcription

Benno Schachter

  1. Cover sheet
  2. Original postcard 1
  3. Original postcard 2
  4. German transcription and English translation

Lisa Seiden

  1. Cover sheet
  2. Original letter 1
  3. Original letter 2
  4. Original letter 3
  5. Original letter 4
  6. German transcription and English translation

 Lucy Smetana

  1. Cover sheet
  2. Original postcard 1
  3. Original postcard 2
  4. German transcription and English translation

Otto Wohlman

  1. Cover sheet
  2. Original letter in English

Stiassny Familie

  1. Information form
  2. Cover sheet
  3. Original letter
  4. German transcription
  5. English translation

Walter Welisch

  1. Information form
  2. Cover sheet
  3. Original letter
  4. German transcription
  5. English translation

KATHOLISCHER WIDERSTAND

Schwester Restituta

  1. Information form
  2. Cover sheet
  3. Original letter
  4. German transcription
  5. English translation

ROMA

Song from Auschwitz (passed down to Petra Gelbart)

  1. Information form
  2. Cover sheet
  3. Original letter
  4. German transcription
  5. English translation

SLOWENEN PARTISANEN

Maria Peskoller

  1. Information form
  2. Cover sheet
  3. Original letter
  4. German transcription
  5. English translation

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