Metadata: E10136# Departmental Secretariat of the Federal Department of Justice and Police 1919-1979
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:
- E10136#
- Title:
- E10136# Departmental Secretariat of the Federal Department of Justice and Police 1919-1979
- Title (official language):
- E10136# Departementssekretariat des eidgenössischen Justiz- und Polizeidepartements 1919-1979
- Creator/accumulator:
- Federal Department of Justice and Police
- Date(s):
- 1935/1945
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 114.66 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection includes a file regarding a petition by a certain Dr Schnorf-Maeder concerning the immigration of Jews to Switzerland between 1935 and 1940. Furthermore, there is a file concerning the deportation of Hungarian Jews in 1944, but also the rescue of Polish Jews from Germany in 1945. There is another file concerning Jewish refugees suffering from TB from Egypt and the Eastern Bloc. [E4001B#1970/187#37*]
- Archival history:
- The documents of the secretariat of the Federal Department of Justice and Police are 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:
- Migration
- Migration--Immigration
- Refugees
- 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