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The database of the Findbuch for Victims of National Socialism has recently been expanded following the addition of a large amount of new data on files in Austrian archives. Now, for the first time, the Findbuch can be used to find files from the Lower Austrian Provincial Archives and the Styrian …

Thanks to a cooperation with Compass Publishers Limited registered Findbuch users can search the Zentralblatt für die Eintragungen in das österreichische Handelsregister ("Central register for entries in the Austrian Commercial Register") between 1933 and 1955 free of charge.

The renewed and updated Findbuch version 2.0 with a new design, additional functions and more content.

Co-operation with the Parliamentary Library and Manz publishers enables publication of the eleven volumes series in the Findbuch.

To coincide with the event “Restitution in Austria. From the Collection Agencies to the Arbitration Panel”, over 50,000 new records were published on the website of the Findbuch for Victims of National Socialism (www.findbuch.at). Now that this data has been entered into the Findbuch database, it is …

Over 2,000 files of the Restitution Commission at the Provincial Court Klagenfurt, more than 500 records on the removal goods from the “Adriatic depot” and almost 800 new records concerning the restitution files of the Financial Directorate for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland are now available …

The address directories Linz 1936, Linz 1940, Salzburg 1942, Innsbruck 1938 and Innsbruck 1940 are online.

Salzburg telephone directories 1937 and 1938 and Baden address directory 1933/34 online.

Following an update new data is available on Findbuch for “proceeds from seized businesses”, the “seizure of Jewish claims” and reedited and supplemented records can be found under the Financial Directorate Index for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland and the Files of the Restitution Commission at …

The years 1930 to 1953 of the Krakow Directories have been digitized in cooperation with the Vienna University Library and Ueberreuter Publishers and can now be viewed online in the Findbuch for Victims of National Socialism.

Following substantial revision, full text searches can now be carried out in the historical address directories and official handbooks on public offices and institutions published in the Findbuch for Victims of National Socialism.

Within the scope of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January – the day of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz – the National Fund of the Republic of Austria presents the Findbuch for Victims of National Socialism (www.findbuch.at). This new online …

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