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.
This year's National Day will once again be an opportunity to visit the magnificent rooms of the Palais Epstein and get to know the National Fund, the General Settlement Fund and the Jewish Cemeteries Fund and their various areas of activity.
On 17 June 2019, a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria, the General Settlement Fund for Victims of National Socialism and the Fund for the Restoration of Jewish Cemeteries took place on the premises of the Austrian Parliament.
With the support of the Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria the renovation of two cemeteries in Burgenland was able to be successfully completed to coincide with the Year of Remembrance 2018: the cemeteries Lackenbach and Kobersdorf were restored in keeping with monument …
Our office is closed from 22 December 2017 up to and including 7 January 2018. We open again on 8 January when we can be reached during our usual opening times.
National Council President transfers the restored Jewish cemetery in Stockerau to the Municipality of Stockerau for Care and Upkeep. The restoration of the cemetery was achieved within the scope of three sub-projects, starting in 2011, with the help of subsidies of approx. 102,500 euros from the …
On Monday 19 December 2016 the Fund for the Restoration of the Jewish Cemeteries in Austria (Cemeteries Fund) and the Jewish Community Vienna approved the restoration work carried out on the Jewish cemeteries in Deutschkreutz and Stockerau. The competent municipalities can now assume responsibility …
“Thanks to his tireless work we managed to provide many survivors with the help and support that they desperately needed in their twilight years. We have not only lost an important partner but also a dear friend,” said the Secretary General of the National Fund, Hannah Lessing.
"The death of Professor Rudolf Sarközi marks the loss of a tireless campaigner for the Roma and Sinti and their right to be recognized as an ethnic group and as victims of National Socialism in Austria", reflected Hannah Lessing, Secretary General of the National Fund of the Republic of Austria.