Communities | Jewish Communities of Austria

Jews lived in Stein an der Donau in the first half of the 14th century. By 1344 Hanns of Weitra

After the Second World War Jews returned to Baden. The synagogue of Baden was closed and the few surviving Jews

Before 1938, Vienna’s Jewish community was one of the largest in Europe. Only a few of the 180,000 Jews living

After 1938, most members of the Jewish community of Graz emigrated or were killed in Nazi camps. In the years

After the Holocaust, approximately 2,400 Jewish refugees were housed in the nearby Bindermichen camp. Only 26 Jews survived the National

Several members of established families returned to Salzburg after the Holocaust. Salzburg became a temporary home for thousands of DPs

After the Holocaust only a few few Jews returned to Innsbruck, and Jewish community life developed very slowly. A new

The first information of a Jewish Community in Goessing in the Burgenland region dates back to the 15th century and

The Kultusgemeinde (Jewish community organization) was founded only in 1929, but Jews settled here from the 1830s. The Jewish commnity

Jews may have lived in Rechnitz since the 15th century. From 1527 until 1861 they were under the rule of