Vienna Holocaust archive unveiling in D.C.

The Holocaust archive of the Vienna Jewish community will be unveiled Thursday at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.The archive, one of the Holocaust’s most detailed, was discovered by the Vienna Jewish Community in 2000. It includes about a half-million pages of material detailing efforts by Jews to leave the country in the 1930s and records of their deportations to concentration camps.Among the records are the names of 118,000 Jews from families that were seeking to emigrate from Austria from 1938 to 1939, according to a June 2 report in The New York Times.The archive is expected to be especially helpful to those seeking to verify the fate of their relatives. Some 65,000 Austrian Jews were murdered by the Nazis, including about one-third of the Viennese Jewish Community, which was among the largest Jewish communities in Europe before World War II.The archive will be exhibited at the Jewish Museum of Vienna starting July 3.