Anywhere but the Reich: The Jews of Nazi Vienna's Applications for Emigration Aid, 1938-1940

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dc.contributor.advisorRozenblit, Marshaen_US
dc.contributor.authorWachtel, Jennifer LeeAnneen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistory/Library & Information Systemsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-07T05:40:35Z
dc.date.available2021-07-07T05:40:35Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractAfter Nazi Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss in 1938, an immediate outpouring of antisemitic violence and legislation horrified the Jews of Vienna. Between 1938 and 1940, Viennese Jews applied to the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community of Vienna or IKG) for financial aid to emigrate. Through a close examination of emigration questionnaires Viennese Jews submitted to the IKG, I demonstrate the harrowing effect of the Anschluss and Kristallnacht (November 1938 pogrom) on Jews from all social classes. By centering how individual families engaged with the emigration process, I argue that Viennese Jews immediately recognized the need to flee and exercised enormous creativity to escape. Desperate Viennese Jews were willing to emigrate anywhere and obtain any job outside the Reich. Viennese Jews also demonstrated resilience in the face of Nazi terror by applying for financial aid to flee the Reich even as potential havens shut their doors to Jewish refugees.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/qphx-oxp2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/27265
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEuropean historyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledJudaic studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAustriaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHolocaust studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledImmigrationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledJewish historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRefugeesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledViennaen_US
dc.titleAnywhere but the Reich: The Jews of Nazi Vienna's Applications for Emigration Aid, 1938-1940en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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