Vienna

During the era of World war 2 Vienna housed 28 percent of the country’s population and  about 170,000 Jews. Vienna was an important center for the Jewish community, for education and culture. Jews in Vienna made a considerable part of the upper class with jobs including doctors, lawyers and bankers.

In 1938, Nazi Germany incorporated the Austrian Republic, which gave the Nazi’s a large amount of power in Austria; Quickly taking advantage of this power, the Nazi’s instituted anti-Jewish laws to all of Austria.  After one year almost all of the Jewish shops had been closed or destroyed(Jewish Shop damaged by Kristallnacht) and most of the Jewish families had been sent to Dachau concentration camp.