Metadata: Personal Fonds – Leon Davičo
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 - LD
- Title:
- Personal Fonds – Leon Davičo
- Title (official language):
- Лични фонд-Леон Давичо
- Creator/accumulator:
- Davičo, Leon
- Date(s):
- 1945/2009
- Language:
- Serbian
- English
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 1.2 linear metres (4 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection of Leon Davičo includes details of his education in Belgrade, the death of his brother Edi and the efforts of his family to survive in the Holocaust, as well as of his studies in Canada, Paris and England, his work for UNESCO, UNICEF and the High Commission for Refugees. It also contains his articles for "Politika", "Politika-Express" and other newspapers in Yugoslavia and abroad.
- Archival history:
- Leon Davičo donated his collection to the Jewish Historical Museum Belgrade. He sent it from Paris in 2017 and enclosed his autobiography, written in French.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Leon Davičo was born in 1926 in Belgrade to Samuil and Lujza. He completed the elementary school "Kralj Petar" and the State High School in Belgrade, and graduated in economics and political science in Montreal. He started his journalistic career at Radio Belgrade, then worked at “Politika" from 1952 to 1968. With his talent, communication skills and knowledge of foreign languages, he quickly made an impression and progressed. He worked as acorrespondent and special reporter from Berlin, Paris, Rome and Geneva. He was the first editor-in-chief of "Politika Express" from 1963 to 1965. He left "Politika" in 1968 to become the head of the European Information Office of UNICEF, and from 1974 to 1980 he was the Director of Information of UNESCO. After retiring, he occasionally wrote analytical texts for "Politika", and from Geneva he worked as a correspondent for the "Beta" agency. He was also the president of the Association of Foreign Journalists at the UN in Geneva, and because of his reputation and authority, his colleagues elected him to the position of president of the Swiss Journalists' Club in 2002. He was awarded by the Association of Journalists of Serbia in 2003 with the Charter for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism.
- Access points: locations:
- Belgrade
- Access points: persons/families:
- Davičo, Leon
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Holocaust
- Personal records
- Professions
- Professions--Journalists
- System of arrangement:
- There is no system of arrangement.
- Finding aids:
- No finding aids have been created.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Bojan Zorić; Jewish Historical Museum; 2020