Metadata: E10080# Federal Office of Justice since 1979
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:
- E10080#
- Title:
- E10080# Federal Office of Justice since 1979
- Title (official language):
- E10080# Bundesamt für Justiz seit 1979
- Creator/accumulator:
- Federal Office of Justice
- Date(s):
- 1994/1999
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 418.9 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises the written records of the Federal Office of Justice since 1979. It includes a file on the rehabilitation of Paul Grüninger (1891-1972) between 1994 and 1999. Grüninger was a border official on the Austrian-Swiss Rhine border and saved several hundred Jews from persecution by the Nazis in 1938-1939 by granting them entry despite their lack of papers. [E4114A#2004/75#2175*]
- Archival history:
- The Office‘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:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Rescue and resistance
- Refugees
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access. Subject to application.
- 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