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Vienna

• 1782-1868 - Converts in Vienna

Between 1782 and 1868 more than 3000 Jews converted in Vienna. Together with the baptized jewish foundlings 6000, up to 1914 more than 18000 left Judaism, mostly poor people, later, in the second half of the 19th century mostly better educated, belonging to the middle class and grande bourgeoisie, also many intellectuals, artists, musicians and writers.

• 1784-1879 Jewish burials in Währing, Vienna 1784 and 1879
• 1784-1911 Austria, Vienna, Jewish Registers of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1784-1911 at FamilySearch, index and images. How to use This Collection
• 1800-1938 "Wer einmal war" - The Jewish Grand Bourgoisie of Vienna 1800-1938 This database is an index to the book by Georg Gaugusch: "Wer einmal war" - The Jewish Grand Bourgoisie of Vienna 1800-1938, published by the Amalthea-Publishing House. The first volume with the letters A-K appeared in print in November 2011, contains 1.700 pages and covers about 250 families (ISBN: 978-3850027502).
• 1826-1943 - Vienna Registry of Jewish births, marriage, and deaths (Matrikel), 1826-1943, images Includes Vienna, Leopoldstadt, Ottakring, Hernals, Währing, Fünfhaus and Sechshaus.
• 1835-1938 - Austria, Vienna, Jewish Vital Records, 1835-1938 at My Heritage - index ($)
• 1845-1938 - Turkish Community (Sephardic Jews) of Vienna, Austria, 1845-1938, Births Register
• 1845-1938 Turkish Community (Sephardic Jews) of Vienna, Austria, 1845-1938, Weddings Register
• 1850-1896 Austria, Vienna Population Cards, 1850-1896 at FamilySearch — index and images
• 1868-1914 - Resignations of the Jewish Community in Vienna between 1868 and 1914
• 1868-1914 - Proselyten und Rückkehr - der Übertritt zum Judentum in Wien (Conversion to Judaism)
• 1870-1942 - Jewish Community Vienna Divorces 1870-1942
• 1870-1914 - Vienna circumcision and births of Jews (Matrikel), 1870-1914
• 1915-1945 - Resignations of the Jewish Community in Vienna between 1915 and 1945
• 1938-1939 Austria, Vienna, Jewish Emigrant Applications, 1938-1939 at MyHeritage - index & images ($)
• 1938 Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna 1938 - Lists of students enrolled in schools and university, gives age or birth date and place of student, names of parents or other relationships or guardians; includes 2,200 names, 1,770 of the approximately 2,230 expelled students have been identified by name thus far, in addition to the names of the 234 graduates, whose academic credentials were rendered invalid, and to the approximately 200 professors and lecturers who were dismissed.
• Cemetery database of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Vienna)
• Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna and Lower Austria
• Burials on Viennese Jewish Cemeteries

Holocaust Databases: Victims and Survivors

• 1938-1945 Austria, Mauthousen Death Book at MyHeritage - index ($)
• Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance Shoah Victims database
• Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
• The Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, Yad Vashem
• Free Access: USC Shoah Foundation, Holocaust – Jewish Survivor Interviews, index
• Austrian Holocaust Survivors, A Letter to the Stars
• JewishGen's Holocaust Database

JewishGen.org

• JewishGen Austria-Czech Database
• JewishGen Unified Search
• JewishGen's Holocaust Database
• The JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF)
• Family Tree of the Jewish People
• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
• JewishGen.org Austria-Czech Special Interest Group (SIG]

GenTeam Databases

• Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna and Lower Austria
• Index of Jewish records
• Jewish Graves
• Burials on Viennese Jewish Cemeteries
• Jewish Cemeteries Innsbruck
• 1679-1874 Older jewish cemetary Eisenstadt 1679-1874 (Burgenland)
• 1782-1868 - Converts in Vienna

Between 1782 and 1868 more than 3000 Jews converted in Vienna. Together with the baptized jewish foundlings 6000, up to 1914 more than 18000 left Judaism, mostly poor people, later, in the second half of the 19th century mostly better educated, belonging to the middle class and grande bourgeoisie, also many intellectuals, artists, musicians and writers.

• 1784-1879 Jewish burials in Währing, Vienna 1784 and 1879
• 1800-1938 "Wer einmal war" - The Jewish Grand Bourgoisie of Vienna 1800-1938 This database is an index to the book by Georg Gaugusch: "Wer einmal war" - The Jewish Grand Bourgoisie of Vienna 1800-1938, published by the Amalthea-Publishing House. The first volume with the letters A-K appeared in print in November 2011, contains 1.700 pages and covers about 250 families (ISBN: 978-3850027502).
• 1832-1895 Index of Jewish records of Burgenland, Austria, between 1832 and 1895
• 1868-1914 - Resignations of the Jewish Community in Vienna between 1868 and 1914 Between 1868 and 1914, approximately 18,000 individuals resigned from the Jewish Religious Community (Israelische KultusGemeinde or IKG) in Vienna, which show the dramatic change of time. Few individuals were baptized, while others did not have any religious affiliation. Sources, an important tool for researchers and genealogists, were the official resignation declarations and resignation protocols of the Vienna Jewish communities, the Inner City, Ottakring, and Sechshaus. Data was amended through matrices by the Jewish Religious Community, Catholic priests and Protestant ministers, as well as through civil marriages, proselyte protocols of the Jewish Religious Communities and requests of name changes by the Lower Austrian Government.
• 1868-1914 - Proselyten und Rückkehr - der Übertritt zum Judentum in Wien (Conversion to Judaism) The Index Proselyten, created by Univ.Doz. Dr. Anna Staudacher, refers to the double volume recently published by Publishing House Peter Lang: Proselyten und Rückkehr (Proselyten und Rückkehr - der Übertritt zum Judentum in Wien 1868-1914, Peter Lang Edition, ISBN 978-3-631-60683-4) - an inventory, the date of birth was added for the more detailed identification of the persons. Part 1 - 569 pages - contains introductions to the sources and the topic in German and English as well as a marriage list of those who converted with the date of conversion (pages 217 - 563). Part 2 - 827 pages - contains the data of the proselyte protocols in editorial form with a multitude of supplemental sources to the spouses, parents with their occupations and children, to rescissions, now and then also to changes of names - with a bilingual user guide.
• 1870-1942 - Jewish Community Vienna Divorces 1870-1942
• 1915-1945 - Resignations of the Jewish Community in Vienna between 1915 and 1945

Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People

• The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP)

• Location
• CAHJP communities list allows search for community holdings by individual location, such as Austria.

During the 1950s and 1960s, the Jewish community of Vienna deposited the majority of its records with The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP). The collection includes material dealing with the religious, community and government matters from the 17th to the 20th century (up to 1945), but mostly from the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection does not have birth, marriage or death records. Material of genealogical value may be found in voters' lists, taxpayers' lists, lists of potential 1930s emigrants, lists of deportees and a complete list of the Jews in Vienna in 1939.

Austria Finding Town of Origin

• Austria Finding Town of Origin.

Austria may refer to:

• The present-day country of Austria.
• The Austrian Empire (1804-1867)
• Austria-Hungary (1867-1918)

United States census records and arriving passenger lists often simply list the place of birth or origin as "Austria" meaning the Austrian Empire or Austria-Hungary. Careful research is needed to pinpoint the province and city/town.

Jewish Research resources on the FamilySearch Wiki are organized primarily by the present-day country, and not by the former designations. If possible, determine the city/town of origin and then search under its present-day country. For help, see Austria Finding Town of Origin.

History of the Jews in Austria

• History of the Jews in Austria
• Austria Virtual Jewish History Tour

Vienna Jewish History

• When Poland was partitioned among its neighbors in 1795, the Austrian Empire (later the Austro-Hungarian Empire) received the southeastern portion of the country heavily populated by the Jews, which it named Galicia.
• Since internal boundaries did not exist within the Austrian Empire, many impoverished Galician Jews migrated to the capital, Vienna. By the end of the 19th century, Vienna had become a major center of European Jewry. On the eve of World War II, it had the third largest Jewish population in Europe (after Warsaw and Budapest).
• Jewish genealogists with roots in Galicia should look for family branches in Vienna, especially if the family name was relatively uncommon.