Photo Collection
- The DÖW photo collection presently comprises approximately 10,000 catalogue numbers with more than 40,000 pictures.
- The collection pays particular attention to the period between the wars, resistance and persecution in Austria 1934-1945, resistance in Europe, Austrians in exile, World War I and World War II, concentration camps, the post-war era in Austria, right-wing extremism in Austria since 1945, memorial sites of resistance.
- The photo collection is searchable by person and subject indexes. Approximately half of the collection can be electronically searched (ARCHIDOC program). Inquiries are possible by name, bearer, date of origin, keywords.
- Reproductions from photo prints for scholarly works, newspaper and periodical illustrations, etc are available.
Archive
Opening times:
Monday through Thursday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Friday closed
Monday through Thursday
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Friday closed
Nazi propaganda for the plebiscite of 10 April 1938 (Vienna's
cathedral in the background)
Viennese Jews lining up in front of the Polish consulate in March/April
1938. Terror and the threat to one's livelihood triggered a mass exodus of the local Jewish citizens.
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