Metadata: E2001#B Section for Foreign Interests 1939-1959
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Swiss Federal Archives Bern
- Holding institution (official language):
- Bundesarchiv Bern
- Postal address:
- Archivstrasse 24, CH-3001 Bern
- Phone number:
- +41 58 462 89 89
- Web address:
- https://www.bar.admin.ch/bar/de/home.html
- Email:
- bundesarchiv@bar.admin.ch
- Reference number:
- E2001#B
- Title:
- E2001#B Section for Foreign Interests 1939-1959
- Title (official language):
- E2001#B Abteilung für fremde Interessen 1939-1959
- Creator/accumulator:
- Section for Foreign Interests
- Date(s):
- 1939/1963
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 79.6 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- SFS 1848-2018 E2001#B comprises a variety of documents of the section for foreign interests. The collection contains two files of interest that were created between 1939 and 1948. One of these files deals with German measures "against German Jews residing in hostile foreign countries" (mainly Great Britain). These measures aimed at divesting Jews of their assets in Germany and expatriating them. Another file deals with the emigration of German Jews from Germany, with the Service International d'Aide aux Emigrants requesting Switzerland's assistance. A third file, created between 1945 and 1963, deals with the unclear fate of Ladislaus Gardo (born 1915), who was last seen in Budapest at the end of the war. [E2001-02#1000/115#96*; E2001-02#1000/115#113*; E2001-08#1978/107#599*]
- Archival history:
- The department's documents were probably gradually transferred to the Federal Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Swiss Federal Archive in Bern has the statutory task of safeguarding, indexing, making available and evaluating archival documents of the Swiss Federal Assembly, the Federal Council, the Federal Administration and Swiss representations abroad. In accordance with the Federal Law on Archiving, it thus contributes to legal certainty, continuous and rational administrative management and makes government action comprehensible. The oldest holdings of the archive go back to the Central Archive of the Helvetic Republic, which was founded on 18 December 1798.
- Access points: locations:
- Budapest
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- Migration
- Migration--Emigration
- Plunder
- World War II
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://www.recherche.bar.admin.ch/recherche/#/de/suche/einfach
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
