Events and documents of year 1953

Exhumations of mass graves

III.1.2.92

Letters and newspaper articles on the issue of exhumation of Jewish corpses from Upper Austrian cemeteries and burial in a Jewish cemetery, from 1951 to 1953

III.1.2.92-64

“Nazi hunt”

III.1.2.143

Letter from Valentin Tarra (Bad Aussee, Austria) to SW, about a travel to the US by Vera Liebl-Eichmann, dated 6 December, 1952

III.1.2.143-2

Care for Jewish Holocaust survivors in the DP-camps

III.1.3.50

Letter from Simon Wiesenthal to the Federal Minister for Education, Ernst Kolb (Vienna, Austria), concerning the establishment of Jewish religious instruction in the Austrian elementary schools, dated 25 September, 1953. In the letter, Wiesenthal writes about the education of his daughter, Paulinka.

III.1.3.50-2

Restitution

III.1.3.68

Letter from Simon Wiesenthal to the Executive Committee for Jewish Claims against Austria (Vienna, Austria), concerning restitution for Jewish Holocaust survivors by the Republic of Austria, dated 21 September, 1953

III.1.3.68-2