The DÖW Library

• is a reference library and covers about 44,000 titles and 350 current periodicals.
• There is a topical emphasis on the following areas of interest: Nazi crimes, Shoah, exile, concentration camps, resistance and persecution in Austria and Europe, right-wing extremism after 1945.
• Searchable by: author, subject (keyword) and location registers; part of it is electronically registered.

• Flysheets, brochures, newspapers of Austrian resistance groups 1934-1945: ca. 10,000 items; searches possible by producer of printed material and type of printed material - periodicals, flysheets, leaflets, Tarnbroschüren (camouflaged literature) etc.; searchable in the categorized card index and catalogues.



• Exile: about 5,000 volumes; publications of Austrian exile organizations, exile literature, German exile literature.



• Library of the F.I.R. (Fédération internationale des réfugiés): 5,000 volumes; special emphasis on European resistance; indexed in a special catalogue.



• Spanish Civil War Collection: over 1,000 volumes predominantly in German, English and Spanish, among other languages.



• Judaica: 2,500 volumes; indexed in a special catalogue, which is currently being computerized.



• Newspaper Cuttings: classified by person and subject area; Austrian collection from English, American and Canadian publications.