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AUSTRIA

The cemetery database of the Vienna Kultusgemeinde covering the Zentralfriedhof Wien first and fourth gate is now accessible via the internet. Source: bohmor digest [August 2003]

Deutsche Version:
http://friedhof.ikg-wien.at/suche_de.asp

English Version:
http://friedhof.ikg-wien.at/suche_en.asp

UPDATE: 153,623 records of Jewish Graves in Austria of people deceased prior to May 5, 1945: http://friedhof.ikg-wien.at/search.asp?lang=en [April 2004]

Verein SCHALOM .. Jewish cemeteries in Austria is an online guide to Jewish cemeteries in Austria with maps and information. Has pictures.


THE JEWISH COMMUNITY

Jewish community information: http://www.haruth.com/JewsAustria.html [October 2000]

"Institut für Geschichte der Juden in Österreich"
(Institute for the History of Jews in Austria) at:
        http://members.nextra.at/injoest
has literature on Jewish Communities. [October 2001]

The "Religion" page of the Jewish community of Vienna has a list of all Jewish cemeteries in Austria with some pictures and information for each one:
        http://www.ikg-wien.at/static/etis/unter/html/re_index.htm [June 2003]
Source: Gerhard Milchram at gerhard.milchram@jmw.at .

Jüdisches Museum Wien
Büro: A-1010 Wien, Trattnerhof 2/106
Museum: A-1010 Wien, Dorotheergasse 11
Bibliothek: A-1010 Wien, Seitenstettengasse 4
Judenplatz: A-1010 Wien, Judenplatz 8
Tel.: +43 (1) 535 04 31 ext. 313
Fax: +43 (1) 535 04 24
Website: http://www.jmw.at/
E-Mail: arthur.koncar@jmw.at

      For more on Viennese cemeteries see the excellent Beginners Guide to Austrian-Jewish Genealogy by E. R. Schoenberg on the BOHMOR website .

General Information for Vienna and North Burgenland about the Shalom Association:
     Austrian Federal President Thomas Klestil praised the work of the Shalom Association, which for the past five years restored Jewish graves in Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland. Shalom was founded in November 1991 by Walter Pagler (email: verein.schalom@utanet.at ) and his wife Carla, together with historian Erika Weinzierl and architect Friedrich Rollwagen. In the course of 150,000 hours of voluntary service so far, a 26-hectare Jewish cemetery, that for five decades was completely abandoned and overgrown, was made accessible. During this process, 19 kms. of paths and roads were either repaired or newly built, which entailed cutting out 2,000 tons of wood. This cemetery is one of four Jewish cemeteries in Vienna in which no burials have taken place for years. Since the 1938-1945 period, in which 62,000 Viennese Jews were murdered and 102,000 exiled, these cemeteries have been completely abandoned and become overgrown.
     Walter Pagler succeeded in finding several mass graves of Jews in Burgenland, and particularly Hungarian prisoners of forced labour camps, who were murdered by the Nazis. Shalom Association is currently preparing a 'Guide' to the Jewish cemeteries, in order to make it easier for visitors - mainly descendants of the second and third generation - to find the graves of their exiled or murdered relatives.
     The invisible core of the restoration of the Jewish cemeteries proved surprisingly to be the electronic database. This was made possible by a donation made by the former Federal Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Science, Erhard Busek. The database is linked up with 24 computers at the Vienna Business School in which the Jewish Community Centre's death register and registrar records are stored. They comprise all the Viennese cemeteries with a total of 155,000 Jewish citizens who have died since 1750 and the cemeteries in northern Burgenland and Lower Austria. Contact Walter Pagler (email: verein.schalom@utanet.at ) or the Austrian Federal Press Service: Tel. ++43/1/531 15-2287. fax. ++43/1/531 15-2880. http://www.austria.gv.at

THE CEMETERIES

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ALTSCHLAINING: see Stadtschlaining

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BADEN:
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DRUMLING: see Stadtschlaining

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EISENERZ:
I passed the cemetery on many walks with my parents. My parents would point out to be a Jewish Cemetery located in Bezirk Leoben in the Obersteiermark. The cemetery is near Lake Leopoldstein across from the castle Leopoldstein. I remember it as a square with a low gray wall surrounding and overgrown with grass. Source: Maria Nagler; e-mail: [?]

DEUTSCHKREUZ: See Mattersdorf.

EISENSTADT:
See also Mattersdorf.
  BOOK: Wachstsin, Bernhard. Die Grabschriften aus Alten Judenfriedhoes in Einsenstadt . Wien: __ 1922. 68+414+243p. (Eisenstadt, Austria old cemetery tombstones)(German & Hebrew). Note: Period: l679-1874. 1140 tbst. chronological-41 missing tbsts list according to death register. Alphabetic names index. Some biographies & kinships. Tbsts phographs/art discussion. Large bibliography. Source: National and University Library, Jerusalem.
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GMUNDEN:
{10853} Gmunden is a small resort town (population about 15,000) located on the Traunsee in the Salzkammergut region, about 105 miles southwest of Vienna, 25 miles southwest of Linz, and 47 miles northeast of Salzburg. Before the war, there were 10-15 Jewish families. GRAZ:
  BOOK: Herzog, D. Der Juedische Grabstein in der Burg Graz (The Jewish tombstone in the City of Graz) . Frankfurt am main: 1928. 17 pages, German. 32V1628. Notes: one tombstone, Rabbi Nisim son of Rabbi Aharon, genealogy analysis. Source: Tagger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.
The synagogue is located at Grieskai 58, Tel. 912-468. The community was established in 1864.
GOBERLING: see Stadtschlaining

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HOHENEMS:
  BOOKS:
      Beit Hachaim: Haus des Lebens; Der juedische Friedhof in Hohenems. Mit Fotografien von Arno Gisinger, Eva Grabherr. Katalog der Ausstellung im Juedischen Museum von Hohenems, vom 30. Apr. bis 12. Juli 1992. [Hohenems, Juedisches Museum, 1992] 64 p. illus. 23 cm. Edited by Eva Grabherr and Arno Gisinger. ID # GT 3247 H6 B4 source: Leo Baeck Institute http://www.lbi.org/ .
      Der Hohenemser Judenfriedhof im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert by Bernhard Purin, in 1989 [The Hohenems Jewish Cem. in 17th & 18th c.] in: Montfort [Quarterly] 3/4 1989, pp.232-238. A conscientious listing from various sources; earliest is a child, no name, buried in 1640. Also note that there is a Jewish Museum and archive with computerized data [in PAF software], Schweizer Strasse 5, A-6845 Hohenems [Vorarlberg]. Source: George Arnstein at Leo Baeck Institute: http://www.lbi.org/ . ID # GT 3247 H6 P8
      Der juedische Friedhof in Hohenems/by Rothschild, Lothar, 1909-1974 Dornbirn: Vorarlberger Verlagsanstalt, 1967. [8] p. 23 cm. Offprint of Montfort, no. 3, 1967. ID # GT 3247 H6 R6 source: http://www.lbi.org/ ., NY.
      Der Israelitische Friedhof in Hohenems / von Aron Taenzer (1871- 1937). Hohenems: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1901. 45 p. fold. plan. 25 cm. "Separat-Abdruck aus der demnaechst erscheinenden 'Geschichte der Juden in Hohenems'." ID # GT 3247 H6 T3 source: http://www.lbi.org/ ., NY. also see Voarlburg
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INNSBRUCK:
The synagogue is located at Zollerstrasse1, Tel. 26892
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JUDENBERG:
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KLAGENFURT:
KOBERSDORF:
http://austria91.tripod.com/910524a_Juedischer_Friedhof_Kobersdorf.jpg
http://austria91.tripod.com/910524b_Juedische_Grabsteine_Kobersdorf.jpg

KIRCHBERG AM WGRAM:
On June 6, 1995. vandals toppled fifteen tombstones. Many were destroyed. This location is 60 km (40 miles) west of Vienna. Source: Reuters News Service, 1995

KREMS:
Jewish cemetery exists as reported by Itamar Danziger idanziger@hotmail.com . [October 2001]

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LAA: see Mistebach

LACKENBACH:

LEOBEN:
In a section of the town cemetery is a monument to the Jewish cemetery. Source: Margarita Bourzas

LINZ:
Linz used the cemetery at Rozmberk Nad Vltavou, Czech Republic. [See Czech Republic] The synagogue is located at Bethlehemstrasse 26, Tel. 279-805.
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MATTERSDORF: Burgenland
The Burgenland area was called ":Sheva Kehilloth" (seven communities) but in fact there were about ten. In addition to Eisenstadt and Schlaining , there definitely was a cemetery in Mattersdorf and most likely in Deutschkreuz (called Zelem), possibly also in Kittsee You may find more information in Hugo Gold's book about the area. You may also be able to get info from the Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt.
    About Mattersdorf, I was told that the entire cemetery may have been destroyed except for one stone. Source: Arthur Levi, 435 Porter Lake Drive, Longmeadow MA 01106, Phone: 413-781-2089, Fax: 413-781-2090 Email: a72levi@map.com
    UPDATE: Mattersdorf was one of the Seven Kehilot. Alternate Hungarian name: Nagymarton. Current name is Mattersburg. I visited Mattersburg in June 2001. All that is left is the Judengasse (with new buildings) and the Jewish cemetery. In the cemetery, which was destroyed, only a few tombstones and parts of tombstones remained, plastered to a wall. The municipality promised to keep the cemetery and not to build on it for 60 years as an exchange for the common and unclaimed property of the Jewish community in Mattersburg. As a gesture, they put new, identical tombstones in the field of the cemetery. On each of these stones is a Star of David with no namesinscribed. I have photos that took at the cemetery in June 2001. M. Deutsch email: deutsch1@bezeqint.net [September 2001]

MISTELBACH::{10592}(7 names) Niederosterreich (Lower Austria)
http://homepage.mac.com/bpsm/old/laa/index-laa.html is a website set up by Magdalena Mullner that may change in the near future. It has a map and burial listings.
     The town of Poysdorf, about 50 km north of the city of Vienna on a direct road to the Czechoslovakian border. Commonly called the Bruennerstrasse, this road led to Bruenn (now known as Brno). Poysdorf is a small town in the flat region of the Nieder Oesterreich (Lower Austria) province, a short distance from the Czech border. With a modest Jewish community, Poysdork used the nearest cemetery in the little town of Mistelbach a.d. Zaya, located a few kilometers west of Poysdorf.     UPDATE: Mistelbach Friedhof (Cemetery): No current Jewish population. Cemetery was destroyed in post-war Eastern Europe. Postal address of cemetery: Waldstrasse 104, Mistelbach, on the outskirts of the town. http://homepage.mac.com/bpsm/old/laa/index-laa.html is a website set up by Magdalena Mullner that may change in the near future.
    Person to contact about grave locations: Franz Mullner (Father of Magdalena.) nz Mullner (Non -Jewish) who has taken over de facto supervision of cemetery and whose family has done much restoration work on site. Will meet interested visitors. email: mullner@nanet.at. Cemetery burials are indexed and computerized.
    Jewish community in town dates probably from the 1880's. Most towns in the area used Mistelbach cemetery, including Poysdorf and Laa. The last known Jewish burial in the inactive Orthodox cemetery was 1936. The isolated suburban hillside is part of a municipal cemetery. The cemetery is reached by crossing private property. A continuous masonry wall with a locking gate surrounds the cemetery. The oldest known gravestone dates from 1889. The 19th and 20th century marble and granite finely smoothed and inscribed stones have Hebrew inscriptions. The cemetery contains special memorial monuments to Jewish soldiers. The cemetery property is now used for Jewish cemetery purposes only. Rarely, private visitors stop.
    Past maintenance includes re-erecting, patching, and cleaning stones as well as clearing vegetation. Current care is occasional clearing or cleaning by individuals. No structures. No threats.
    Robert and Gina Fraser, Dianella WA 6059, Australia, rwfgjf@iinet.net.au, completed the survey on September 14, 2003. The cemetery was apparently untouched during the Holocaust. The site is kept in reasonable condition. Grass and trees were rather overgrown but are now in good condition. A stonewall in good condition surrounds it. Entered through the side gate and back yard of a private house, it is kept locked. The householder (who does not speak English) of the house opposite the entrance, No 105, used to hold the key. There may be an additional key holder: Franz Mullner. About two hundred graves exist. The site has been "adopted" by Magdalena Mullner, her Father, and family, who have performed much restoration work (see website for more information) I think, but am not sure, that they are now the key holders. [September 2003]
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NEUNKIRCHEN:
NEUMARKT:
see Stadtschlaining

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OBERWART:
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POYSDORF: see Mistelbach

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ST. RUPRECHT:

STADTSCHLAINING: See also Mattersdorf.
STOCKERAU:
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VIENNA:
Alternate name: Wien in German
     Stadtemple (City Temple) and Jewish Museum are located at 4 Seittenstettengasse, Tel. 36-16-55 (14). Mr. Pagler, the non-Jewish man who voluntarily looks after the Jewish cemeteries in Vienna, says that about 250,000 Jewish burials are computerized in a database established with the assistance of the Economic University. The database belongs to the Jewish community and is only available for private persons who are looking for their ancestors. All the burials in Vienna Zentralfriedhof (Gate 1 and 4) are in this database. For information, write to the Vienna Kultusgemeinde Matrikelamt or Direktion. A donation is appreciated. [See Shalom Association in "THE JEWISH COMMUNITY" above.]
  BOOKS:
     Several books are in the library at Jerusalem listed in: Tragger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish Cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997. Source for Vienna unless otherwise stated: Ada Greenblatt ada.Greenblatt@worldnet.att.net
      Inschriften des alten juedische Friedhofes in Wien; Beitrag zur alterthumskunde Oesterreichs von Ludwig August Frankl (1810-1894). Wien: n. p. 1853. 124, xxii p. microfilm; 16 mm. Imperfect; pages 8-9, 67-68, 98-99 and xvi-xvii lacking. Freimann, p. 196 (imprint date 1855) ID # x MfW W306 [ http://www.lbi.org/ ., NY]
      Rundbemerkungen zu meinen Inschriften des alten Judenfriedhofes in Wien; Wachstein, Bernhard, 1868-1935. Wien 1912 und 1917. Wien (Viktoria) 1934. Other titles: Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutsch-Osterreich . CN915.V5 W321
      Inscriptions of the old Jewish cemetery in Vienna) by B. Wachstein. Vienna, 1912 and 1917. Bd. 11, pages 5-122, 1934. S32V1652, BD. 11 Notes: Remarks arranged according to the chapters of the original book, family names index, places index, including genealogies of Theomin, Keisler-Reik, Katzenellenbogen, Goetzel.       Zur Geschichte der Juden in Wien von Ludwig August Frankl (1810-1894). Der alte Freithof. Der Tempelhof. Wien: J. P. Sollinger's Witwe, 1853. viii, 78 p. 19 cm. Freiman, p. 290. ID # DS 135 A92 V5 F66 [ http://www.lbi.org/ ., NY]
      Der alte Friedhof im ix Bezirke aus dem 16 Jahrhundert hrsg. von Conrad Grefe. Wien: Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1891. 11 p. 23 cm. and portfolio (6 mounted plates) 27x33 cm. (His Beitraege zur Geschichte der Israeliten in Wien, 1) On cover: Der alte israelitische Friedhof in Wien aus dem 16 Jahrhundert. ID # f GT 3247 V5 G7 [ http://www.lbi.org/ ., NY]
      Juedische Friedhoefe in Wien, Niederoesterreich und Burgenland: Mahnmale [Von] Paricia Steines, Klaus Lohrmann [und] Elke Forisch. [Wien] Club Niederoesterreich, [1992] 148 p. col. illus. also at: contact Daniel Dratwa e-mail: d.dratwa@mjb-jmb.org. The books are among the collection at the Jewish Museum of Belgium. 20x20 cm. Contributions by Paul Chaim Eisenberg and others.. Bibliography: p, 144-146. ID # GT 3247 V5 S83 [ http://www.lbi.org/ ., NY]
      Nachtraege zu den 10 bisher erschienenen Baenden der Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden in Oesterreich von Arthur Goldmann, Bernhard Wachstein, J. Taglicht [und] Max Grunwald. Wien: 1936. 405 p. 25 cm. (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden in [Deutsch-] Oesterreich, Bd. 11) Added t. p. reads: Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden in Oesterreich; hrsg. von der Historischen Kommission der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde in Wien,. Includes bibliographies. Contents.- Das verschollene Wiener Judenbuch (1372-1420), von A. Goldmann.- Randbemerkungen zu meinen Inschriften des Alten Judenfriedhofes in Wien, von B. Wachstein.- Nachlaesse der Wiener Juden, 2 Teil, 1786-1848, von J. Taglicht.- Der Anteil der Wiener Juden an Handel und Industrie nach den Potokollen des Wiener Merkantil- und Wechselgerichtes, von B. Wachstein.- Grabschriften des juedischen Friedhofes im 18 Wiener Gemeindebezirk (Waehring) aus den Jahren 1784-1799, ID # DS 135 A92 V5 V55 [ http://www.lbi.org/ ., NY] The book with further information below is also listed in the book.
      (Grave inscriptions from the Jewish cemetery of Vienna situated in its 18th district (Waehrig) for the years 1784-1799) by M.Gruenwald. Vienna, 1934. Pages 363-405, German. 37B26. Notes: 63 tombstones, chronological index, general index including personal names.
      Der neue israelitische Friedhof in Wien und seine Bauten Denkschrift hrsg. von der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien. Wien: 1928. 34 p. illus., fold. plan. 27 cm. ID # GT 3247 V5 N48 [ http://www.lbi.org/ ., NY]
      Hebraeische Grabsteine aus dem XIII-XV Jahrhundert in Wien und Umgebung; Vorgelegt in der Sitzung am 1 Dez. 1915 von Wachstein, Bernhard, 1868-1935Wien: A. Hoelder, 1916. 22 p. illus., plates. 25 cm. (Kais. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien; philosophisch- historische Klasse. Sitzungsberichte, 181 Bd., 1 Abh.) Freimann, p.196. ID # PN 6297 H4 W285 [ http://www.lbi.org/ ., NY] also at the Hebrew College Library in Brookline, MA
      Die Inschriften des alten Judenfriedhofes in Wien; im Auftrage der historischen Kommission der israelitischen Kultusgemeinde in Wien von Wachstein, Bernhard, 1868-1935/ Wien: W. Braumueller, 1912-17. 2 v. illus., geneal. tables, fold. plan, plates, 28 cm. (Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte der Juden in Deutsch- Oesterreich, Bd. 4) Freimann, p. 196. Includes bibliogprahies. Contents. - v. 1. 1540(?)-1670 - v. 2. 1696-1783. ID # q PN 6297 H4 W3 [ http://www.lbi.org/ ., NY]
      Die juedischen Friedhoefe und die "Chewra Kadischa" (fromme Bruderschaft) in Wien von Gerson Wolf. Veroeffentlicht vom Vorstande der "Chewra Kadischa" in Wien. Wien: A. Hoelder, 1879. iv, 52 p. 23 cm. Freimann, p. 291. ID # GT 3247 V5 W65 [ http://www.lbi.org/ ., NY] ü Weiner hebraeische Epitaphien (Hebrew Epitaphs in Vienna) Dr. Berhard Wachstein. Wein, 1907. 33 p. in German and Hebrew in the Hebrew College Library in Brookline, MA 1907. 33 pages, illustrated, German. Pv181, 156, IV. Notes: 13 tombstones, 1651-1746, Rossauer cemetery, language analysis, biographical notes.
VORARLBERG:
     A databank containing the history of the Jews in Voerarlberg and Tirol from the 18th through the 20th centuries is being completed. It should contain the names of the Jews who lived in this area. Contact and source: Mag. Eva Grabherr (Muesumsleitung), Juedisches Museum, Vill Heinmann-Resenthal, Schweizer Strasse 5, A-6845 Hohenems.
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WIEN: see VIENNA

WIENER-NEUSTADT:
WELS:
  BOOK: Author: Magistrat der Stadt Wels. Title: List of former concentration camp prisoners buried at Wels, Austria, in 1945 name list. Description: .25 in. Notes: Consists of a copy of a list of names of concentration camp inmates who died at Wels, Austria, mostly in May 1945, and were buried in the city cemetery there. The list provides the first and last names of the victims and, in some cases, their place and date of birth, and place and date of death. Standard citation for US Holocaust Research Institute Archives Magistrat der Stadt Wels, Austria. The Magistrat der Stadt Wels supplied a copy of the name list to Ernest Willinger in Aug 1990. …. Pulled for catalog 24 Sep 1993. Control No.: DCHY582-A [December 2000]

WETZELSDORF: see Graz


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