JewishGen Austria-Czech Database

Austria

Vital Records:

• Vienna Births, Marriages, Deaths Index
  An index of nearly 602,000 Jewish birth, marriage, and death records from the city of Vienna.
• Burgenland vital records
  This database includes an index of birth, marriage and death records for the towns of Eisenstadt, Deutschkreutz and Schlaining-Oberwart in the Burgenland District of Austria on the border with Hungary.

Birth/Mohel (Circumcision):

• Vienna: Births Register for the Turkish Community, 1845-1938
  1,438 birth records from Vienna's Turkish Jewish community.
• Mohel Book of Dr. Herz Herzl, Lackenbach, Austria
  903 Records.
• Lackenbach Mohel Book by Rabbi Neufeld
  This database contains 345 entries from the Mohel book for the town of Lackenbach, Austria and the surrounding region of Burgenland by Rabbi Neufeld.

Marriage/Divorce:

• Divorces Index 1870-1942
  10,276 divorce records from the Jewish community of Vienna from between 1870-1942.
• Vienna: Marriage Register for the Turkish Community, 1845-1938
  789 Records.

Death/Burial:

• Vienna Seegasse Cemetery (1540-1783)
  This database includes burial records from Vienna's oldest preserved cemetery, which is located in the Seegasse.

Censuses and Lists:

• Vienna: Turkish Community, 1788-1818
  A list of 125 early members of Vienna's Turkish Jewish community.
• Wer einmal war
  This database includes an index from Georg Gaugusch's index to Wer einmal war, consisting of almost 110,000 entries.
• Vienna Family Lists
  This database includes names of Jews who were given permission to settle in Vienna after the expulsion of 1670.

Conversion Records:

• Converts from Judaism 1915-1945
  27,000 people who converted from Judaism in the city of Vienna between 1915-1945
• Converts to Judaism 1868-1945
  14,349 people who converted to Judaism in the city of Vienna between 1868-1945.

Holocaust:

• Jewish Deportations from Austria
  62,279 records of Jews deported from Austria to various concentration camps.

General

• Swiss Bank Accounts
  An index of 1,694 holders of Swiss Bank Accounts.
• Knopfelmacher Bris Book
  The bris record book of the mohel Jakob Knopflmacher (1834-1880) who was active in Austria, Moravia, Slovakia and Hungary. 1,323 records dating from 1853-1868.
• JewishGen Family Finder
  19,000 entries by Jewish genealogists researching families in Austria and the Czech Republic.
• JewishGen Holocaust Database
  15,000 names from various datasets with information about Holocaust victims and survivors.
• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
  250,000 burial records in Austria and Czechia.

Czechia (Czech Republic)

Vital Records:

• Austria-Czech Vital Records
  An index of Czech Vital Records. As of September 2023, there are more than 672,000 records in the database.
• Třebíč Vital Records
  9,440 records of Jewish births, marriages, and deaths recorded in the city of Třebíč [Trebitsch], Moravia, dating from 1784 to 1942.

Birth/Mohel (Circumcision):

• Prague Mohel Book
  This database contains 6,095 circumcision entries from the Mohel Book of Prague covered the dates 1699-1739.
• Frankel Mohel Book of Prague
  Mohel book of Israel ben Simon Frankel-Spira (1711-1791), communal leader in Prague. The Mohel book records 456 circumcisions between 1730 and 1771.

Marriage/Divorce:

• Prague Marriages Index
  4,914 records of Jewish marriages in the city of Prague, dating from 1784 to 1865.

Death/Burial:

• Prague Deaths during the Plague of 1680
  A list of 2,740 Jews who died in Prague during the outbreak of the Black Plague between December 1679 and December 1680.
• Prager Tagblatt Obituary Notices 1877-1938
  32,246 Records.
• Nikolsburg Graveyard Register Database
  Burial registry containing the names of over 4,500 persons recorded as buried in the Jewish Cemetery of Nikolsburg (Modern day Mikulov)
Death registers from Achab Haidler and Chewra
8,668 records of Jewish burials in Czechia.
• Prague Old Jewish Cemetery
  

Censuses and Lists:

• Prague: Index of the 1748 Census
  1,473 Records.
• Prague: Index of the 1792-1794 Census
  6,991 Records.
• Familiants in Bohemia
  5,074 Records.
• Moravian Census
  Local town census or conscription record books from the years 1857 through 1921 that pertain to the formerly designated Jewish areas of certain Moravian towns.
• Prague Fire 1754
  972 Records.
• Moravian Property Registers
  Contains real property records (deeds, mortgages and transfers) for Jewish houses and synagogue seats (male and female) for communities in Moravia.
• Index of Prague Taxpayers - 1782
  1,251 Records.
• Bohemia 1783 Census
  7,288 Records.
• Bohemia 1793 Census Index
  18,817 Records.
• Prague 1729 Census
  2,331 Records.
• Dunkirk Czech Jewish Soldiers
  This dataset contains a list of 50 Jewish Czech soldiers at Dunkirk.
• Prague 1546 Family Lists
  463 Records.
• Prague House Lists
  This database includes names from various Jewish "house lists" from the early 1700's.
• Prague Conscriptions
  This database includes residence permit applications (conscriptions) of the Prague Police Directorate from the years 1850 to 1918.
• Prague Fassionen
  This database includes an index of Prague Fassionen, a census taken when Jews were permitted to return to Prague, 1748-1751.
• Liber Judeorum Albus
  This database includes an index from the Liber Judeorum Albus, or Jewish White Book, which was used to record real property and mortgage transactions among the Jewish community in Prague. There are dozens of books, and they are being indexed on an ongoing basis.

Holocaust:

• The Theresienstadt Ghetto Project
  An index of 43,927 profiles from Geni.com, with direct links to profiles.