General

New

• Article 116 Reconciliation Project

It started with a successful effort to broaden the franchise in Germany to include more descendants and shares many aims around guidance, education, reconciliation and communication with the Passport to Austria project

• Resources for parents considering how to educate their children

A select list of resources for parents/guardians looking to educate their children about their newly restored citizenship – why they have it and what they can do with it. Compiled by a mother/daughter team in the restored citizens community. To make suggestions for additions, please open the document and find the email address in the introduction - CLICK THIS LINK

Citizenship law

• How the news about the new citizenship law was reported in The Observer in 2020

Follow the news from Austria

• Vienna Briefing – a weekly English language newsletter, covering the most significant news story from Austria in depth
• 'Austria, explained' - an ongoing series of informative videos from national newspaper Der Standard. Subtitles can be added in your language (in the settings menu, click ‘Subtitles/CC’, then select, ‘German (auto generated)’. That takes you back a step to the settings menu so you have to reopen ‘Subtitles/CC’. You will now see the ‘Auto translate’ option under ‘German (auto generated)’. Click ‘Auto translate’ to select your language)

Descendant viewpoints & initiatives

• Austria and Us': accounts in 2024 by 15 'Wiederoesterreicher' who reclaimed Austrian citizenship
• Second Generation Network - an association for the descendants of Jewish refugees from continental Europe
• The Association of Jewish Refugees' 'Next Generations' group
• Jewish Historical Society of England ‘Passport System’ – please contribute your account of claiming citizenship (or not - it wants to hear about reasons against too) 
• The Journey Home – A book by refugee descendants on journeys back to ancestral homelands
• A powerful journalistic account of thoughts provoked by reclaiming citizenship in the publication Catapult

Webinar-specific resources

Webinars on politics, voting and elections

Registration form to vote in Austria (there is only a German version). If this link doesn't work because they have updated the form, see this link - you need form AF100 https://server1.wahlformulare.at/antragsformulare-waehlerevidenz/index.html

Register to vote in Austria - the Government's instructions in German
Register to vote in Austria - a guide in English from the Vienna Briefing
English instructions for filling in the registration form

Vienna municipal authority MA62's guidance (repeats the above but start here if your relative was from Vienna)

Find the right party for you:
EU&I: An EU-wide tool to work out the best party for your preferences, including in Austria (German and English)
iVote: A tool created in Austria for the same purpose (German only, although you can right click and your browser will probably give you an option to 'translate this page')

Websites of the five largest parties in Austria's Parliament:

ÖVP

https://www.dievolkspartei.at/

SPÖ

https://www.spoe.at/

FPÖ

https://www.fpoe.at/

Grüne

https://gruene.at/

NEOS

https://www.neos.eu/

General background:

Elections in Austria (bmi.gv.at)

General information on elections (oesterreich.gv.at)

Postal voting using voting card (oesterreich.gv.at)

Austria - How to vote (europa.eu)

Elections and Direct Democracy – BMEIA - Außenministerium Österreich
An article on Austria's new Jewish / Jewish heritage voters in The Times of Israel

Austria Behind the Mask: Politics of a Nation since 1945, by Paul Lendvai. A primer on Austrian politics, by a prominent Hungarian-born Jewish Austrian journalist