Metadata: Personal Fonds – Dr Albert Vajs
Collection
- Country:
- Serbia
- Holding institution:
- Jewish Historical Museum
- Holding institution (official language):
- Јеврејски историјски музеј (Jevrejski istorijski muzej)
- Postal address:
- Kralja Petra 71A, 21000 Belgrade
- Phone number:
- (+381) 112622-634
- Web address:
- http://www.jimbeograd.org/
- Reference number:
- AJIM, LF - AV
- Title:
- Personal Fonds – Dr Albert Vajs
- Title (official language):
- Лични фонд-Др Алберт Вајс
- Creator/accumulator:
- Vajs, Albert
- Date(s):
- 1945/1964
- Language:
- Serbian
- Hebrew
- German
- English
- French
- Extent:
- 2.1 linear metres (7 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises a large number of documents, photographs, books, magazines and publications of Prof Dr Albert Vajs, as well as his extensive correspondence. Family photographs and testimonies bear witness to the personal tragedy of this Jewish family from Zemun. The collection has been used for commemorative events dedicated to the work and activities of Dr Vajs.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Dr Albert Vajs was a prominent Serbian and Yugoslav lawyer and the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia (SJOJ) from 1948 to 1964. His efforts and authority enabled a number of monthly magazines to be established in that period, such as "Jewish Review" in 1950 and"Jewish Almanac" in 1954. Furthermore, the Jewish Historical Museum in Belgrade began to collect archival material, "The Crimes of Fascist Occupiers and Their Collaborators Against the Jews in Yugoslavia" was published in 1952 and Dubnov's" Brief History of the Jewish People" in 1962. Albert Vajs encouraged the work of the Jewish youth clubs, strengthened the connections with Jewish organisations worldwide (World Jewish Congress, JOINT, Conference on the Jewish Material Claims Against Germany) and with Yugoslav Jewish organisations abroad. He participated in the European Conference of the World Jewish Congress in Paris in 1945. He was a member of the Executive Board of the World Jewish Congress. The Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia erected a statue of Albert Vajs at the Jewish cemetery in Belgrade in gratitude and appreciation of his work. In Kibbutz Gat, Israel, a forest was planted dedicated to him, while the Preschool of the Jewish Community of Belgrade and the Jewish Home in Skopje were named after him. Albert Vajs died on 4 April 1964 in Belgrade.
- Access points: locations:
- Belgrade
- Yugoslavia
- Zemun
- Access points: persons/families:
- Vajs, Albert
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Personal records
- Photographs
- Testimony
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system of arrangement.
- Finding aids:
- A catalogue of documents is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Bojan Zorić; Jewish Historical Museum; 2020