Association of Jewish Merchants and Craftsmen, Vienna Verband der jüdischen kaufleute und handwerker, Wien (Fond 1191)

The Association of Jewish Merchants and Craftsmen (Vienna) was funded in 1928 with the aim of coordinating the Austrian Jewish business community’s efforts in various areas of the economy and public life. Unaffiliated with any political party, the association called for unity among Austrian Jewry, believing that, given the frequent economic crises and increasing nationalist distributions from ruin. In 1934, the Yad Harutzim (hand of the Diligent) Society of Jewish Craftsmen, founded in 1908, joined the association on an autonomous basis. The association published the journal “Die Wirshaft”; its chairmen were Joseoph Jolles and A. Taub. The organization’s activities ceased after the Nazi Anschluss of Austria.

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 1191. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the filmed collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Archival Programs Division in 2006.