"Collective Camps"

After the Viennese Jews were expelled from their homes and placed in overcrowded "collective flats", the next step towards deportation took place in February 1941. The "collection camps" played a central role as the last stop before the deportation to extermination. Two schools were also rededicated for this purpose. One was the school at Castellezgasse 35, 1020 Vienna, and the other was the school at Kleine Sperlgasse 2A, 1020 Vienna.[1] The "Central Office for Jewish Emigration" was responsible for setting up the "collection camps" and organizing the deportations. The approximately 8,700 [3] Austrian Jews who were deported to Maly Trascianec were also held in "collection camps" before their transport.

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^[1] Cf. Wien History Wiki (Wien Geschichte Wiki), Deportationen, https://www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at/Deportation, Accessed 29.03.2021.

[2] Dieter J. Hecht, Eleonore Lappin-Eppel, Michael Raggam-Blesch, Topographie der Shoah. Gedächtnisorte des zerstörten jüdischen Wien (Wien 32018) 411.

 [3] Christa Mehany-Mitterrutzner, Vernichtung – Deportation nach Maly Trostinec, 1942. From the archive In: Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (ed.) Deportation und Vernichtung – Maly Trostinec. Jahrbuch 2019 (Wien 2019) 13.