For more than 17 years, Bernhard Rothkappel worked with the National Fund as a graphic designer. On 12 April 2022 he passed away, suddenly and unexpectedly.
They year 2021 is drawing to a close – the second year under the shadow of the worldwide Covid19 pandemic. For the National Fund of the Republic of Austria, established at the National Council, the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism and the Fund for the Restoration of the …
Today, 8 November 2021, the newly-restored Jewish cemetery in Klosterneuburg was handed back to the local authority, which has committed to maintain the cemetery for the next 20 years.
The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism has published a “Visitors’ guide to the Jewish cemeteries in Austria”. The publication, which is available in German and English, was produced jointly with the Jewish religious communities and grassroots initiatives and …
At the end of 2020, the restoration work on the Jewish cemetery in Klosterneuburg reached completion: On 2 December, the work was approved in the presence of representatives from the Jewish Community Vienna, the Federal Office for the Protection of Monuments, the Fund for the Restoration of the …
Richard Wadani, deserter from the German Wehrmacht, honorary chairman and long-standing spokesperson of the committee “Justice for the Victims of Nazi Court Martial”, passed away in Vienna on the night of 19 April 2020.
Due to the government measures to contain the spread of the corona virus, the National Fund is closed to the public until further notice. You can find current information on the official measures at www.sozialministerium.at/coronavirus. From tomorrow, Tuesday, 17 March 2020, we will be available …
FOGIS stands for Fonds-Geo-Information-System (Fund geo-information system) and is the new geo-information portal of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism. It can be accessed online at https://maps.nationalfonds.org.
Many people took the opportunity presented by the national holiday on 26 October 2019 to visit Palais Epstein and get to know the National Fund, the General Settlement Fund and the Cemeteries Fund and their diverse range of activities.