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
Extent and Medium
270,608 digital images, PDF
Creator(s)
- Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund: Jüdische Nachrichten (JUNA)
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
- Frankfurter, David, 1909-
- Sagalowitz, Benjamin, 1901-1970.
Corporate Bodies
- Swiss Federation of Israelite Communities (SIG)
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Switzerland--Politics and government--20th century.
- War crime trials.
- Jews, German--Europe--History--20th century.
- Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--.Switzerland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Europe.
- Jews--Persecutions--Switzerland.
- Switzerland--Foreign relations--Germany.
- World War 1939-1945--Atrocities--Europe.
Genre
- Pamphlets.
- Reports.
- Brochures.
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
- Document
- Correspondence.
Copies
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum holds copies of Holocaust-relevant archives from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte