Jewish News: the JUNA archive and documentation belonging to the press office of the Alliance of Swiss Jewish Communities Jüdische Nachrichten: JUNA Geschäftsarchiv und Dokumentation der Pressestelle des SIG

Identifier
irn47980
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.284
  • RG-58.024
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1970
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

270,608 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

Archival History

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland. The Jüdische Nachrichten (Jewish News), JUNA transferred its archive to the AfZ in 1993/1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the digitized collection via the United States Holocaust Museum International Archives Programs in Oct. 2012.

Scope and Content

Contains JUNA records, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, original documents as correspondence, reports, court documents, etc. Includes correspondence and other documents on Benjamin Sagalowitz; and collection of documents compiled by the defense in the trial of David Frankfurter in Chur 1936; documents on the Holocaust in European countries, persecution and extermination of European Jews, eyewitness accounts on concentration and extermination camps, Jewish resistance, reactions abroad, number of victims; the book project "The Way Maidanek" by B. Sagalowitz, personal dossiers, persecution and extermination of German Jews, situation reports; documnets on the post-war antisemitism in Eastern Europe; as well as on activities of Jewish organizations in the U.S., and international organizations.

System of Arrangement

Chronological and alphabetical.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

People

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.