Although the older of the two , established in 1863 , was destroyed by the Nazis during the '' Kristallnacht '' , around 60,000 graves remain intact . Cemetery records indicate 79,833 Jewish burials as of 10 July 2011 . Prominent burials here include those of the Rothschild family and that of the author Arthur Schnitzler . The second Jewish cemetery was built in 1917 and is still in use today . There were 58,804 Jewish burials in the new section as of 21 November 2007 . Officials discovered the desecration of 43 Jewish graves in the two Jewish sections on 29 June 2012 , allegedly as an anti-Semitic act – the stones and slabs were toppled or damaged
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Vienna Central Cemetery