Austria

Background Readings

• History of Jews in Austria
• Austria Between the Wars
• Brief History of the Holocaust in Austria

Websites Relating Directly to Selma Neuhauser’s Experience

• BBC Religion and Ethics Resources: Kindertransport
• Brief reading with audio files of other survivors
• History from the Kindertransport Association
• USHMM Article on Kindertransport

Film

• Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
• USHMM German Troops March into Austria

Websites about Austrian Holocaust History

• Yad Vashem
• • Anschluss
  • Austria
  • Central Office for Jewish Emigration
• USHMM main article on Austria
• The Archive of the City of Linz, Austria
• An excellent resource about the Holocaust in Austria
• KZ Gusen I, II, and III Concentration Camps
• KZ Gusen Memorial Committee

• The articles, in English, focus on the Gusen Camps in Austria but contain information about Mauthausen as well.

Primary Documents

• Judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Trial of German Major War Criminals posted by Yale University Avalon Project
• Invasion of Austria
• KZ Gusen Memorial Committee Digital Archive Project
• Many primary documents relating to Mauthausen and Gusen

Timelines

• Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camps in Austria
• WWII and Holocaust
• The History Place