The holdings of the Simon Wiesenthal Archive (SWA) represent a unique collection and the documentary legacy of Holocaust survivor Simon Wiesenthal and his fellow campaigners of the Jewish Documentation Center (JDC), who dedicated their life to the fight for justice for the victims and their goal of bringing Nazi perpetrators to court.

Collecting, documenting and informing were the immediate reactions of many survivors to the Holocaust. The SWA is one of the few of such collections that has not only survived many decades, but has also been institutionalized, making it unique far beyond Austria. This project finalizes the cataloguing and preserving of the documents received by Wiesenthal and the JDC (VWI.SWA.III. series 9: 1959–2005). The collection painstakingly illustrates the obstacles of seeking justice in a mainly indifferent postwar Europe as well as the tireless efforts and networking of survivors, NGOs, lawyers, prosecutors, historians and others in order to overcome these very obstacles.