first returnees: Holocaust survivors in Vienna in the immediate postwar period

Relatively few Holocaust survivors returned to Vienna after more than seven years of Nazi pesecution that included the plunder, forced emigration and mass murder of the Austrian Jewish community. 130,000 Jews had fled the Nazi regime, which murdered more than 65,000 of their coreligionists. Some did return and they did so in waves. Camp survivors came back from exile and finally politically unaffiliated emigres arrived home from abroad