Fax: 0043 6542 766 -30 she said. We will be glad to get reactions from all over the world, especially from Slovenian refugees and there descendants. The camps with the most substantial groupings of materials include Bad Ischel, Enns, Steyr, and Wegscheid (Tyler). Feeling such finite novelty about a region which previously ushered familiarity, a touch of melancholy crept in. Fax: +49 (0) 8592/ 888-40 The concentration camps operated from 1938 until the end of World War II in 1945. Hannah Fry takes a look at this humble piece of plastic packed full of technological innovations. All the teachers and children are Slovenian. Between 1945 and 1952, their numbers were augmented by other Jewish displaced persons, whose needs were met by the displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the U.S. Army, the Central Committee of Liberated Jews, the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Agency (UNRRA), and later the International Refugee Organization (IRO). 1980 Press Photo Ogaden, Ethiopia Refugees at Lasdure Refugee Camp in Somalia . Peter Leevers, We hope to hear more from Peter in the future. camp at Viktring was placed under the command of Major Barre from Allied Military 337 Wegscheid farewell party. your advice in this matterkind regards, the very best for the new year, The death of the last family member was quite a cause of concern to me while we lived in that old, worn-down country house. The scenery looked particularly beautiful, maybe because I was finally aware that this might well be the last time I would ever get to see it. Thank you, Blessings, Shaunessy Owen (Marchi), Red Cross camps 'Where can I get clothes?'" Read about our approach to external linking. Why is EU struggling with migrants and asylum? Kirchstrasse 28 The railroad station was southeast Traiskirchen is still in the evening news, Beverly Hills is still on TV. Human rights group Amnesty International has criticised what it calls "inhumane" conditions at Austria's main refugee camp. His terrible handwriting and the simplicity of his atrocious German grammar effectively illustrated his anguish; the agony of being in love, of being an immigrant, of being forced to leave his original home, and now his desired home. VideoThe gender reforms row explained in 70 seconds, A grieving father's promise to his daughter. I got up and the man claimed his bed, reaching his hand underneath the pillow, feeling for the bread. This are only the essential informations. It wasnt there. All the occupants were dead. UNRRA AUSTRIAN OPERATION 331 TB: WEIDMANDORF CAMP TEA D. P. 6S LISTED REQUESTED TO BE SENT TO Klagenfurt where they intended to find work.PLEASE DEMIT THE ABOVE D.P.S. The gender reforms row explained in 70 seconds. Rathaus A-8740 Zeltweg quarter). The buildings were first used by the government as a refugee camp between 1956 and 1960. of the camp. I do speculate that in WW II some of the Nazi officers Initially, the camp served as a prison camp for common criminals but was turned into a labor camp in May 1939 for political prisoners. ORTs activities in the area were concentrated in two permanent camps of Ebelsberg and Bindermichl as well as large refugee center in Wegsheid, a transit camp opened in June 1946. We were lying to each other. Those here represent a cross-section of the con. A 38-year-old Canadian officer, Barre quickly grew fond of the Slovene inhabitants of his camp. October 01, 2015 8:55 AM. Ugliness stands out and makes one notice. http://www.lemko.org/art/madzelan/29eng.html, Hawker Hunter J-4094 AudioWhat's the best way to heat a room? He had the answers to most of Austrias problems (however imaginary those problems may have been) in the 90s: immigrants and asylum seekers. Little did I know that in America some people voluntarily built iron fences and walls around their homes. The files were grouped into series at YIVO according to the best determination of provenance and the objective of imposing on the entire collection an overall order resembling the internal organization of the Jewish community in Austria. The name concentration was used in reference to the idea of confining a large number of people in one place because they were undesirable. These groups consisted of German Communists, Jews, Poles, disabled people, Romanis, homosexuals, and clergymen. I wondered how they made it this far. Weisskirchen - Krntnerstrasse; British zone; Weissenstein - Villach; Carinthia state; British Zone; Weidmannsdorf, Camp C, UN # 332 (British zone) see Klagenfurt, Below is picture of the Nazi POW Camp Weidmannsdorf, Audio, Father of missing baby is registered sex offender, Met officer held over child abuse images found dead, City asks Madonna if it can borrow her painting, Train strikes: Cheaper to settle, minister admits, German police deny Greta's detainment was staged, Grammer praises Frasier reboot co-star Lyndhurst, Nine police fired for sexual or domestic misconduct, MPs push back against timeline to scrap EU laws. The great majority of the evacuees had been amassed in the five central regions of the Austrian half of the Empire (Upper Austria, Lower Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Styria). I was rattled awake by a mans silhouette, which uttered something I couldnt understand, but the meaning was quite clear. Vienna had an international sector as well. In August 1938, Nazi Germany sent inmates from Dachau to Mauthausen to construct a new slave labor camp. 1 to your desktop the 2011 Excel spreadsheet (in German) of camps and camp On June 29th, 1945, all refugees came from Viktring to DP camps in Spittal, St. Veit and Lienz/Peggetz. Austria. The first of such camps were erected in Germany after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took control of the country. Despite possessing a plethora of attributes which should allow Traiskirchen to live on peacefully in unremarkable insignificance, the town found itself featured in the Austrian TV evening news quite prominently. September 24, 2015 10:58 AM. Magd Zaour, a 23-year-old former student from Damascus, Syria, said he was thankful for the outpouring of help. Posters originating from the Austrian DP camps are catalogued separately, in the DP Posters Collection (RG 294.6). Hauptplatz 8 "They are just left alone and have to survive there. In May 1948, soon after fleeing from Hit particularly hard were 19,434 Romanian Jews who had fled Russian-annexed Bukovina and Bessarabia to enter the U.S. In 2011, APC raised money for programs that would provide, among other things . by Klaus. 'Where can I get food? The camp building was glaringly obvious as we arrived into Traiskirchen. camps with the WW I ones. The Cossacks were here only 4 weeks, and the people in Lienz know the story of the massacre. This landmark stood out like a swollen bruise on a forgettably ordinary face that would pass by unnoticed, if it wasnt for the bruise. A few men were out in the cold, silently smoking cigarettes while leaning on the iron barrier for support. On a recent afternoon in the small town of Traiskirchen, 20 kilometers south of Vienna, locals parked outside the gates of the former school and unloaded jackets and sneakers in all sizes, as well as thick coats, hats and gloves for the approaching winter to clothe those staying at the refugee camp. http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/200e/33-47.jpg, "During the First World War, internment Seventy-five refugees, still living in the camp, were transferred to Anastan to await emigration to new homes overseas. 39,867 asylum applications by refugees were received in 2021 in Austria according to UNHCR. As elsewhere in liberated Europe, Jewish refugees gravitated towards the U.S. My parents made friends with quite a few locals and during the last few weeks in Austria, we had many visitors to our humble 200-year-old country house where we lived thanks to the grace of our small municipality. Amnesty says around 1,500 people are sleeping in the open air at the Traiskirchen centre near Vienna. Than they were brought to the DP camp in Spittal an der Drau. Amnesty International called attention to the deplorable living conditions. A 9800 Spittal an der Drau, Tel: 0043 4762 5650 - 0 On the map Forst (forest) Thalerhof. Tel. Please, any information send me it to lagrisel@yahoo.com.ar It's very important for me and my family, and you are the most important hope that I have in this moment. Upper Austria); near Linz, US zone; Team 320, City Archive: Stadtarchiv Vls is a market town in the district of Innsbruck-Land in the Austrian state of Tyrol located at the western border of Innsbruck. My mother wrote a list with all names of the teachers and pupils she knows. We help them answer questions that come up. The reason for such prominence is that Traiskirchen hosts one of the largest refugee camps in Austria. Furthermore there was a Jewish DP-Community in Tirschenreuth. During the 1960s and 1970s, such political refugees were welcomed and embraced, as Western Europe was going through a period of relative liberalization fueled by student protests and anti-imperialist political movements. E-Mail: info@wegscheid.de, Wegscheid / Vogscheid Tyler "As they stumbled from the train into the sunlight, they found themselves of the Slovene inhabitants of his camp. Austria hosts around 146,000 refugees and subsidiary protection holders and over 18,000 asylum-seekers. Naively I boarded a train to Salzburg where I thought a friend of mine Telefon: 03577-22521 0 Wienerstrasse - Kapfenberg; British zone; Wiesenhof, in Absam They help to get birth documents, to find the grave of grandparents, to show the locations. Half are in the asylum-seeking process. Before and during the Second World War, several concentration camps were maintained and controlled by Nazi Germany throughout its territories. The code has been copied to your clipboard. WHERE THEY INTED TO FIND WORK: PLEASE DEMIT. As our January departure date drew closer, I tried to substitute my reservations about Traiskrichen with fanciful dreams of America, inspired by my weekly TV diet of Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place. (Computer translation from French below. Ukrainecast: What do we know about the helicopter crash? Austria is a very rich country. From: http://www.danceage.com/biography/sdmc_Concentration_camp#Austria-Hungary or "The repatriations took place in A group of children from the Jaeger Kaserne DP camp in Germany read a Yiddish newspaper in an undated photo. When I found out that my family and I had to spend a night there, I was genuinely frightened too. Government (AMGOT). The pictures which accompanied the news reports usually showed a middle-eastern-looking person or groups of Africans always nameless and representative of all problems. Can you help me. YIVO issued appeals to the DPs in the camps and centers, and organized voluntary committees of YIVO friends to coordinate the gathering of relevant materials, which were forwarded to YIVO in New York. Syrians, Kosovans and Afghans were the three biggest groups claiming asylum in Austria in early 2015, the agency says. As was destined, my butt and my face became friends with the chair and the desk for a few hours of rather uncomfortable slumber. It is about as unexceptional as most blue-collar commuter boondocks which dot the Viennese hinterland. The people here in Austria are so supportive but the government does nothing, I think, he said. Was it at a hospital or at the house? The experience of the Jewish Displaced Persons figured prominently in this project. A transient population, the Jewish DPs looked towards the American Army for services and protection, rather than towards the Austrian government. The camps mum worked in Austria were Eisenerz, Kapfenburg, Reid Rehabilitation Centre, and the YMCA Simmer Camp program in Waiern and Ebanesse. One of the worst tragedies of the Syrian crisis occurred near the Austrian border in the town of Parndorf. The concentration camps operated from 1938 until the end of World War II in 1945. If it were not for Barre's compassion, a further 6,000 Slovene We really sit here in abundance, and this is not necessary, she said, calling it her country's duty to welcome refugees. Item S-1302-0000-0564-00001 - Austria - Refugees in Camps. Clare McMurray worked as a Volunteer Welfare Officer for Save the Children Fund . Audio, What's the best way to heat a room? slope of the Carpathian Mountains (Lemkovyna), which is now in Poland and was A total of 21,319 decisions have been made on initial applications. admits to nearly 2,000 deaths, I have never ever read Some of the files of the ICK0Zs Rothchild Hospital are of a confidential medical nature and have therefore not been microfilmed. She had to be taken to peggetz -lienz. "On May 23, Allied Forces Headquarters But the need for proper accommodations for asylum seekers is pressing. During the first days of the crisis, Vienna set up a Refugee Coordination Centre and erected 65 emergency shelters, which included 10,600 beds. Will they be allowed to stay and live outside the fence, as I had, or will they be rejected and sent back to their/someone elses country. in the Carpathian Region were in fact from annexed I also can write the information in Slovenian. Of the microfilm number, the first number corresponds to the film roll, while the second number indicates the frame where the folder begins on a given roll. Follow-Up: John, Miff and Julia have corresponded and have shared research. Bad Gastein - 96 Badgastein; (at Pongau province) considered luxurious (use of different hotels. Mauthausen camp construction work was funded by money from several sources including money stolen from inmates. Bistum Innsbruck, Dizesanarchiv, Domplatz 6, Postfach 582, Many people were still awake, a melange of chatter echoed through the hallways. 51 (1950): 455-472. Vols / Wols, L. Upper Austria, (U.S.) See Wels below. To most people, there is absolutely nothing memorable about Traiskirchen. We were very grateful that a family friend offered to drive us all the way to Traiskirchen. Wiesbauerstrasse - Nr. On June 29th, trains stopped again near Peggetz. convenient ditch to join the bodies of those who had succumbed to the The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. For several weeks, he's been held in Traiskirchen, Austria's largest refugee camp, where he sleeps in a tent. Zone in Austria. Jews, Markt Wegscheid Wallnerkaserne - Salzburg US Anyone could come and admire this unique, locked-in diversity from the safe side of the fence, but there was no charlatan to collect a shilling before you are allowed to enter the circus. I waited patiently for my parents and brother to fall asleep and then dared to embark on my own personal adventure through the refugee camp. There were also, by mid-1948, thirteen ORT vocational schools in existence in Austria. A 5700 Zell am See, Tel: 0043 6542 766 -0 Wagna is a municipality in the district of Leibnitz in Styria, Austria. We checked in, armed with a registration number and a room number. As I was doing research to help me translate my father's diary, I happened to come across the posting below which you placed on Olga Kaczmar 's web page. 17 was the school barrack. The topic formed the platform for an entire political party: the up-and-coming Freedom Party of Austria (FP). Our mutually limited knowledge of broken English was quickly exhausted and reduced to a choir of stuttering gestures. Austrian archives - https://www.oesta.gv.at/bezirks-stadt-und-kommunalarchive. Not that I had any money for either. The prisoners at the concentration camps in Austria, like most Nazi prisoners in Germany, were forced into slavery under poor conditions that led to the death of many of them. TRAISKIRCHEN, AUSTRIA . A captive aura surrounded the entire perimeter, as if it all existed just for an exhibition, a zoo. by Klaus Fohringer. Held in Al-Hawl refugee camp since 2019 Australia: Brought to Syria by her "much older husband" Claims to have known very little, and stayed in her home; Present at Baghouz; Was pregnant when she made her way to the Al-Hawl refugee camp in 2019. Viktring, near Klagenfurt, refugees camped in muddy, tentless, plowed On June 1st, 1945 and the next days, the British military force them to get in the train to send them back to the Russian cone at the bridge in Judenburg. YIVO and its partners at the Center for Jewish History have extensive collections relating to displaced persons, which can be found by searching the catalog. I returned to the room where my chair and desk awaited. Most of these were temporarily placed in assembly centers, rather than regular DP camps, and soon sent on to longer-term accommodations in the American zones in Austria and Germany. Zell am See As I'd like to focus on the relationship between (mostly) Polish DPs in Flossenbrg und surrounding Jewish DPs, I'd like to get to know more about Tirschenreuth, too. Others were provided for in Austrian U.S. Wien, IX - transit camp; Alserbachstrasse; District Alsergrun; US zone; Wien, XVII - subcamp of Rothschild Hospital; Arzbergergasse Nr. The aim of the project was to locate and collect archival materials on the Holocaust and the post-war years of Jewish revival in war-ravaged Europe. I watch neither. The Gusen consisted of three separate concentration camps in the Perg district: Gusen I, Gusen II, and Gusen III. ), British zone, Here is picture of the Nazi POW Camps Wolfsberg, Displaced Persons (DP) Camps were established in Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Belgium. Small numbers of refugees started arriving in Austria between 24 October and 3 November 1956, when some 3,000 to 4,000 people crossed the western border. ), GAU:KAERNTEN Big conglomerates, such as retail group REWE International, are initiating vocational training programs for young refugees. The website has a lot of material from all of these camps. The records of the Israelitische Kultus Gemeinde, the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Upper Austria, the International Committee for Jewish Concentration Camp Inmates and Refugees (ICK-Z), and the AJDC reflect the varied roles they played for the DP community. We mirrored each other. It was a chunk of dry bread. (Obersterreich Published citations should take the following form:Identification of item, date (if known); Records of the Displaced Person Camps and Centers of Austria; RG 294.4; box number; folder number; YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The situation was criticized even by Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner, who was largely seen as responsible for the inadequate response. Hardly anyone had the courage to say it to my face because a fight would ensue. One of the challenges facing many DPs was the lack of identity documents so they could emigrate. Permission to publish part or parts of the collection must be obtained in writing from the YIVO Archives. run camps in Vienna. Were There Concentration Camps in Austria? Austria refugee statistics for 2020 was 141,816.00, a 4.31% increase from 2019. translation from Chronology of Teffling. With assurances of their safety, the unarmed soldiers initially went The language of instruction was Hebrew, and the educational focus was on Israel. Janai Safar: 1996: 2015 Osterreichisches Luftfahrtmuseum (stored), Graz/ Thalerhof, Austria As we were told, this storage space spawned many problems within its burdened existence. Malheureusement je ne retrouve pas cette photo sur les sites. GAU:KAERNTEN The barrack Nr. Even my identity was shifting into a more domestic shape; I started feeling Austrian. As the number of new refugee arrivals increases, their location and personal needs change, so Caritas and other organizations are using social media to optimize the volunteer aid. Will some teachers receive a 15.9% pay rise? It describes the facility as insanitary and badly organised and says there is insufficient medical care. VideoUndercover in door-to-door sales. Built to house 1,800, the federally outsourced Traiskirchen facility is now a temporary home to 4,500. Half of Viennas current 1.8 million residents are of immigrant origin, including Hungarians, Czechs, Poles, refugees from the Balkan Wars, Afghans and Turks. The conditions within the camps were unbearable. I have posted a nice series of pictures of the Villach-St. Martin Refugee Immediately after the annexation of Austria, Nazi Germany erected the Mauthausen concentration camp in Mauthausen and several other subcamps throughout the country. Land Steiermark; British zone or Swiss zone; Krnten; near Spittal on the Drau River; Linz, Municipal office: Stadtgemeinde Spittal an der Drau, Burgplatz I tried to position my head on the pillow but felt an unusual discomfort from underneath. Wien, III - Arsenal, Gem Wien, Schlachthausgasse Barracks camp; British zone; Wien, IX - Rothschild Hospital; Severingasse; District Alsergrund; US team 350; Durchgangslager; in 600 Jews. Johanna Kronawetter johanna.kronawetter@aon.at 'Overwhelming' volunteer response to Italy. 94110 Wegscheid, Telefon: +49 (0) 8592/ 888-0 http://www.wels-stadt.at/. Later gave birth, and now has two children. Satisfied with his search, he laid down without any more concerns and closed his eyes. Bezirk Internationalisiert (gem. Austria has an education policy for the children of refugees. To a dream land that remains just a dream. I was born in Trofaiach. Volksgarten, Archive: Landesarchiv Vorarlberg This year, a staggering 52,000 requests have already been. The open doors provided plenty of light for seamless maneuvering. I am from Argentine, and I have found your page after a long long search. 9; District Maxglan; US zone; Wien - Vienna on the Danube River; Haupstadt & Bundesland - 13 DP camps; 1. May 6, 2020 By October 1947, 2,644 Jewish DPs were employed in AJDC sewing shops, carpentries, bakeries, or as locksmiths, camp and shoemakers, and electricians. The EU's statistics agency Eurostat says Austria received more than 28,000 asylum applications in 2014. KREIS:LIENZ During the Syrian War, where nearly 1.3 million migrants sought asylum in the E.U. Widmanngasse 38 The Austrian countryside we called home for the previous four years seemed so bland and dry compared to the sunny beaches of California. My parents were born in Slovenia, they flight with my grandparents in May 1945 through the Loibltunnel to Carinthia and stayed with 20.000 Slovenians on the fields in Viktring, when the British military promised to bring them to Italy. Some were located at former concentration camps or military camps, where the homeless immigrants were housed. Around 56% of them were answered positively. Many refugees said they have received little, if any, information on their individual processing statuses and options. For some years now I have been looking at your website and it has been really helpful to me. in their weakened condition to Talerhof, a concentration camp which was More than 90,000 Austrian refugees applied for asylum by the end of 2015. Four different refugee camps were scattered along the valley, camps which had previously been built by HItler as Jewish Slave Labour Camps. John Zakelj St. Paul, Minnesota USA. At Austrian Refugee Camp, Volunteers Rush In. I think I spent only about a week or less there while the Brits They had come there from Belaurus and I am in search of recovering our family stories. The Story Of World War II's Nazi Youth Indoctrination Camps. established my political refugee status, etc. On your website the DP camp Peggetz/Lienz is named for Slovenian, but all informations and fotos are from the Cossacks, the Cossacks cemetery and their meetings every year. Julia Gonzalez, Dear Julia, cela correspondrait avec la carte de dplacement de celui -ci. Made provocative social media posts. Worse, we were lying to ourselves. zone; See Philomena Cunk ponders mankind's first moments Diane Morgan returns with a new series of Cunk on Earth. 113,810 people came to Austria on the 5th of November, and 6,000 were taken to the camp in Traiskirchen. Refugees (Austria-Hungary) By Francesco Frizzera During World War I, about 1.1 million refugees sought refuge in the interior of Austria- . I have lots of information about Trofaiach and would be glad to share that with you. According to the United Nations, there are currently 146,000 refugees in Austria, mostly from Syria and Afghanistan. By 1947, there were thirty AJDC elementary schools, and a kindergarten in every Jewish DP camp. I wondered what was to become of them. The head of the Austrian branch of Amnesty International, Heinz Pazelt, told the BBC the conditions in Traiskirchen were "shameful", particularly in a rich country like Austria. Gusen II was opened in March 1944 and contained up to 17,000 prisoners who were deprived of even the basic facilities. It said Austria was facing an "extreme situation" because of a rise in the number of people seeking asylum there. For more information, contact: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 Email: archives@yivo.cjh.org, After the liberation of Vienna in April 1945, there were 17,000 Jews in the city, most of whom were Hungarian Jews or other refugees. A "displaced persons camp" is a temporary facility for displaced persons, whether refugees or internally displaced persons. The Austrians It was the largest Jewish transit camp in Austria and housed about 3,000 to 4,000 inhabitants. Men, women, In 2014, when 28,000 people claimed asylum in Austria, the government paid ORS 21 million euros ($23.7 million) for its services. The courtyard was brightly lit. 6021 Innsbruck I suppose it wasnt very difficult to figure out that a white person in this building could only be either Bosnian or from one of the disputed Caucasus regions. the children and the elderly were displaced from their homes and sent to concentration Tschinowitscher Weg - Villach; British zone; Untergimplach - see Gimplach - Gai; Trofaiach; British zone; Unterlaufenegg 29 - Deutschlandsberg; Styer; British zone; Unterlaufenegg 31 - Deutschlandsberg; Styer; British zone; Untermandling -- Pichl-Preunegg; British zone; Ursulinenkloster - nunnery; Graz; British zone; archives At the main gate, one final good-bye to one more friend we havent seen ever since. From: http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/kr/taler.htm, 10/24/06 Budapest to Vienna, I managed to slip into the British Zone at Muerzuschlag). true fate at the hands of Tito's Communist partisans. City Archive: Magistrat der Stadt Wien - MA 8 - Those who tried Where were the inter-ethnic gang brawls, the scars of battles, and the smell of blood in the air? 0:00 0:01:52. The reconstruction of Jewish life after the Holocaust, the survivors aspirations toward new lives and homes, and the strong role played by the various facets of the Zionist movement in the lives of the refugees, are represented in this collection of documents from the DP camps in Austria.Series I includes the files of Jewish organizations which functioned in Vienna during the post-war period. (UN Archives via JTA.org) In 2017, Deborah Veach went back to Germany, looking for the site of the displaced persons camp where she and her parents had . These three camps in Vienna, Salzburg and Linz contained the remaining difficult cases ineligible for emigration because of medical infirmities and lack of skills. 6020 Innsbruck, Treffling, How Many Countries Are Recognized By The United States. I'd like to know if you could send me some information about Trofaiach camp, because I need it to know if my mother Juliana Stajdohar / Stajduhar was there between 1945-1948. My parents lived there during 1948-1949. Article Stable URL: http://www.ajcarchives.org/AJC_DATA/Files/1948_1949_15_YRForeign.pdf. Download One of my biggest concerns was whether I should try to smuggle into America some of the Nazi army medallions my brother and I unearthed from the cabinets that were left behind by the Austrian family to whom the house we lived in originally belonged. Austria and they delivered some pay-back for being This finding aid provides access both to the original records and the microfilm. Universitt Innsbruck, Universittsarchiv, Innrain 52, Leoben, Steiermark; British zone; Ukrainians, Jews; See also Miff Crommelin's Trofaiach website: http://www.crommelin.org/history/Biographies/1914Edward/UnrraScrapbook/Trofaiach/Trofaiach.htm, Dear Olga, They include the records of the individual camps as well as political and cultural groups that operated within the camps. In the contents list, the description of the materials corresponds to both a folder number and the microfilm number. To be fair, the vast majority of the news coverage involving Traiskirchen was not about the town per se, but rather about the refugee problem, which just so inconveniently and involuntarily involved the town. "The situation in Traiskirchen is no longer tolerable for the asylum seekers," Mikl-Leitner said. 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