Sara Fischer collection Colección Sara Fischer
Extent and Medium
3,927 digital images, JPEG
4 microfilm reels, 35 mm
Creator(s)
- Sara Fischer
Biographical History
Sara Fischer was born in Poland in 1907. She emigrated to Argentina in 1931 and founded a kindergarten class in the Peretz School in Buenos Aires. She also became the head of the Israeli kindergarten central council (vaad hajinuj) in 1950. She was a prolific author of books and articles on the subjects of Jewish education and culture, including articles in the serial Argentiner Iwo Shriftn. She died in israel in 1997.
Archival History
Yiṿo in Argenṭine
Acquisition
Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Source of acquisition is the Yiṿo in Argenṭine (Fundación IWO). The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in March 2012.
Scope and Content
Contains poems, songs, photographs, questionnaires, correspondence, and papers of Sara Fisher, a writer on Jewish education and a head of the Israeli kindergarten central council.
System of Arrangement
Arranged in five series: 1. Reports (Informes); 2. Songs (Canciones); 3.Training Materials (Capacitaciones); 4. Didactic Materials (Material didactico); 5. Photographs (Fotos). Note: Digital images organized by reel numbers (Four digital folders)
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Yiṿo in Argenṭine
People
- Fischer, Sara, 1907-1997.
Subjects
- Jews--Argentina--Intellectual life.
- Jewish educators--Argentina--Buenos Aires,.
- Jewish women authors--Argentina.
- Jewish day schools.
- Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- Jews--Argentina--Buenos Aires--Biography.
Genre
- Songs.
- Document
- Reports.
- Photographs.