Metadata: E2020# Service for Representation of Foreign Interests and Internment
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:
- E2020#
- Title:
- E2020# Service for Representation of Foreign Interests and Internment
- Title (official language):
- E2020# Dienst für Vertretung fremder Interessen und Internierung
- Creator/accumulator:
- Service for Representation of Foreign Interests and Internment
- Date(s):
- 1917
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 17.4 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes numerous documents concerning the representation of foreign interests of states and prisoners of war during the First World War, e.g. a file reporting on the supply of ritual ‘Easter bread’ to German prisoners of war of Jewish faith in 1917. [E2020#1000/130#60*]
- Archival history:
- The service‘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
- Subject terms:
- Jewish holidays
- Prisoners
- 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
