Metadata: Records of Aleksandar Singer, the President
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, PS - AS
- Title:
- Records of Aleksandar Singer, the President
- Title (official language):
- Председнички списи-Александар Сингер
- Creator/accumulator:
- Singer, Aleksandar
- Date(s):
- 1990/2007
- Language:
- Serbian
- English
- German
- Hebrew
- Extent:
- 2.1 linear metres (7 boxes)
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises records and correspondence created by Aleksandar Singer in the course of his work as a president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia from 1994 to 2007.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Aleksandar Singer was born in Bačka Topola in 1923. His father was Josif and his mother Irma, née Lederer. He completed his elementary schooling in his hometown, followed by high school in Subotica and Belgrade. During the Second World War, he joined the resistance movement and was detained in Hungarian and German concentration camps, including Auschwitz. Almost his entire family was murdered in the Holocaust. After the war, he was the secretary of the Local Committee of Bačka Topola, and from 1947 to 1951 he was the Secretary General of the Peasant and Workers' Cooperatives of Serbia. From 1951 to 1953, he was detained in Goli Otok camp. After leaving the camp, he worked in the General Directorate for Grain. From 1957, he worked as a clerk in the Association of Cooperative Savings Banks, as the assistant director of the Yugoslav Agricultural Bank for Serbia and secretary of the Association of Serbian Banks until 1969. At his initiative, a branch of Ljubljanska banka in Belgrade was founded, and he was one of the initiators of the establishment of the Yugoslav-German bank in Germany. Until his retirement, he was the director of the Austrian bank Winter in Frankfurt. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia and the president of the Association of Jewish Communities of Serbia from 1994 to 2007.
- Access points: locations:
- Serbia
- Yugoslavia
- Access points: persons/families:
- Singer, Aleksandar
- Subject terms:
- Correspondence
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- System of arrangement:
- The documents are partially arranged.
- Finding aids:
- A list of box contents is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Historical Archives of Belgrade
- Author of the description:
- Bojan Zorić; Jewish Historical Museum; 2020