Language:
German
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Zeitgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
32,2 (2005) 91-110
Keywords:
Naturhistorisches Museum (Austria)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews History 1938-1945
;
Anthropology Research
Abstract:
In September 1939 the Gestapo arrested some 1,000 "stateless" Viennese Jewish men (and boys) of Polish origin. They were first interned in various prisons, and finally in the halls beneath the bleachers in the stadium. A commission led by Wastl selected 440 of them for an anthropological survey: it recorded biographical data, photographed the men from all angles, measured them, and prepared plaster-of-Paris masks of nineteen of them. On 30 September the stadium was cleared for a football game. The Jews were deported to Buchenwald, where many died; others died later in other camps, as did most members of their families. Asserts that to reduce these men to objects of research was to degrade them even before their murder. The data, photos, and masks remained forgotten in the museum's archives until rediscovered in 1998.
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