Union of Jewish Humanitarian Associations B'nai B'rith of Austria B'nai B'rith-Bund der jüdischen humanitären Vereinigung Österreichs des UOBB und seine Ortsgruppen, Wien (Fond 1221)

The Independent Order of B’nai B’rith (Sons of Covenant) was established in New York in 1843 by a group of German Jews. B’nai B’rith of Austria was funded in 1894 and designated District no. 10 of the International Order of B’nai B’rith. Its jurisdiction comprised the entire Hubsburg Empire, including the loges of Moravia and Galicia. After WWI, B’nai B’rith was structurally reorganized to match Europe’s new territorial divisions: District 10 become the Federation of B’nai B’rith of Czechoslovakia, while District 12 was created in Austria under the leadership of S. Ehrmann. Officially named: Verband der Israelitischer Hummanitäts-Vereine B’nai B’rith fűr Ősterreich”, the B’nai B’rith union in Austria numbered six loges with 862 members in 1932. It published a bulletin “Bnai Brith Mitteilungen fűr Ősterreich” edited by Dr. Arnold Ascher.

Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Russian State Military Archive (Rossiĭskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ voennyĭ arkhiv), Osobyi Archive, Fond 1221. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 1993.