• was founded in 1963 by ex-resistance fighters and anti-Fascist historians. DÖW is a foundation since 1983 and receives financial support from the Austrian Government, the City of Vienna and the Verein Dokumentationsarchiv.



• Research themes: resistance and persecution (1934-1945), exile, Nazi crimes (especially the Holocaust), right-wing extremism after 1945, restitution



• Activities: securing and depositing source material for archival use and scientific evaluation; managing the archive and library, including provision of an advisory service for students, journalists etc.; education and information facilities for youths, school pupils and those involved in adult education; providing educational material for the classroom, organizing talks in schools with survivors of the Nazi terror (Zeitzeugen); exhibitions, guided tours of archive, library and museum.



• Information on DÖW activities, announcements of conferences and lectures, a review of historical and political journals, book reviews etc. are included in the Newsletter of DÖW (Mitteilungen), which appears five times a year. The Newsletter is sent free of charge to interested parties.

Archive

Library

Exhibition

History

Submit to Herbert-Steiner-Prize 2010

"Registration by Name": Austrian Victims of the Holocaust
Database (more than 62.000 names) and documentation on the Shoah of the Austrian Jews

DÖW's Permanent Exhibition online

Catalog to the Permanent Exhibition

The War against 'the Inferior':
On the history of Nazi medicine in Vienna
An exhibition by the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance in Vienna's Otto Wagner Hospital