Metadata: E2001B*; E2001C*; E2001D* Foreign Affairs Department 1918-1946
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:
- E2001B*; E2001C*; E2001D*
- Title:
- E2001B*; E2001C*; E2001D* Foreign Affairs Department 1918-1946
- Title (official language):
- E2001B*; E2001C*; E2001D* Abteilung für Auswärtiges 1918-1946
- Creator/accumulator:
- Department of Foreign Affairs
- Date(s):
- 1920/1945
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 533.83 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
SFS 1848-2018 The Foreign Affairs Department 1918-1946 contains numerous files of interest regarding foreign policy.
One file deals with the issue of the immigration of Jews from Russia between 1920 and 1922, also with regard to the revolutionary upheavals in Russia and the fear of the Swiss authorities that these upheavals might spread to Switzerland.
A large number of files deal with the period of National Socialism or measures of exclusion and discrimination of Jews by the National Socialists. For example, there is a file from 1937 dealing with the removal of Jews from their positions in Germany and a file concerning the expulsion of Jews from secondary schools. Another file deals with the publication of the names of Swiss citizens who made purchases from Jews in Germany in 1935. Another file contains documents concerning the settlement and residence of foreign Jews in Switzerland from 1927 to 1936, and another file deals with the transfer of assets held in Germany by Swiss Jews to Switzerland. Another file contains questionnaires from the German police authorities to Swiss Jews in Germany concerning membership in organisations or parties and stays abroad, another deals with a German entry ban on Jews between 1937 and 1945, another deals with the issue and renewal of passports for German Jews in 1937-1938, while another file deals with the "Jew" stamp on business or legitimation cards.
The collection also includes a file on the Reich Association of Jews in Germany from 1939 to 1942, and another file contains lists from 1938 to 1941 of trades and professions forbidden for Jews. In addition, there are other files concerning a social compensation levy payable by Jews in Germany and other property levies from the time of war. A further file contains documents concerning anti-German propaganda by Jews abroad dating from 1937 as well as several files concerning federal intervention in favour of foreign Jews who were in concentration camps in France, and a file on the effects of the most recent German ordinance on the Citizenship Law on German-Swiss border crossing for Jews dating from 1942/1943. The collection also includes a statement by the Swiss authorities on the treatment of Jews in France and the treatment of foreign Jews in France from 1940 to 1942, as well as files documenting the deportation of Jews from the territories occupied by the Axis powers between 1942 and 1945. Other files also deal with the situation of Jews in other European countries such as Italy, Hungary, Denmark, Romania as well as Palestine.
In 1942, Switzerland issued certificates of Swiss descent to women who were married to Jews, Poles or Czechs, as can be seen from another file. There is also a file on the expulsion of Jews by German border guards on entry and exit on the Geneva - Chancy - Pougny - Bellegarde line, while another file deals with illegal border crossings into Switzerland.
The collection also includes files dealing with the Swiss Aid Committee for Jews in Hungary in 1944, the reception of Jews in need of rest after 1945 and the persecution of Jews in the Middle East after 1945. The question of return migration after 1945 is also dealt with in several files.
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- 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:
- Switzerland
- 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
