Concluded projects
of the Institute of Conflict Research
Registration by name of the Viennese inmates in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
| Project Management: | Univ. Prof. Dr. Anton Pelinka |
| Project Team: | Mag.a Dr.in Helga Amesberger Mag.a Dr.in Brigitte Halbmayr |
| Financed by: | City of Vienna |
| Concluded in | December 2005 |
As long as 60 years after the liberation of the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp, it is still unclear, how many Austrians were detained there. It is very difficult to find out the actual number of Austrians in Ravensbrück, because they were registered as "Reichsdeutsche". Moreover, the National Socialists destroyed a lot of documents before leaving the camp. Estimations range from 800 to 1,000 Austrians in Ravensbrück. Our research has so far underpinned our hypothesis that the number of inmates was at least twice as high.
Among the Austrian inmates of Ravensbrück there were many Viennese women and also some men. So far we have been able to identify 629 Viennese inmates, 158 of whom did not survive the concentration camp. The short biographies of each wo/man include information about their persecution, their life before and - if so - after persecution.
