us-005578-irn518579
type: RecordSet
archival history: Das Naturhistorischen Museums Wien
has beginning date: 1930-01-01
has end date: 1947-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 2
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: deu
has or had subject: 701
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn518579
record resource extent: 7,473 digital images, JPEG 5 microfilm reels, 35 mm 6 DVD-ROMs, 4 3/4 in.
record resource structure: Digital records organized in the following order: I. DVD 1: Korrespondenz 1930-1947; DVD 2: Inventare-Judenfriedhöfe; Stadion Juden-Gruppencharakteristika; Stadion Juden-Messblätter-1-2; Stadion Juden-Messblätter-2-2; II. DVD 1:Kahlich 1-2 Inv. Nr.2599 Kahlich 2-2 Inv. Nr.2599; Tarnow Kahlich Inv. Nr. 2600; Kriegsgefangene-Korres., Inv-Nr-2735; DVD 2: Kriegsgefangenen-Stadion-Protokol.-1-6; Rassenkundliche Untersuchungen(2623); III. DVD1:Anthropologisch-erbbiologische Gutachten 01-70; DVD 2: Anthropologisch-erbbiologische Gutachten 61-250 Arrangement is thematic
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Contains documents and photographs relating to pseudoscientific racial studies performed by Josef Wastl and team of anthropologists at the Natural History Museum Vienna, including the physical measuring and examination of Jews in Vienna and Tarnó́w, persons of unclear racial lineage in Vienna, and POWs in various Stalags. Contains also more than four-hundred original three-part portrait photographs, taken as part of the racial science examinations of stateless Jews in the soccer stadium in Vienna in 1939, and over a one thousand color slides taken of POWs as part of examinations that took place in various Stalags. The records also feature communication with an anatomical institute in Poland pertaining to the requisition of skeletons and body parts from Jewish and Polish victims for research and exhibition.
title: Records of the Department of Anthropology of the Natural History Museum Vienna Akten der Anthropologischen Abteilung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien