Metadata: E10901# Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland – Second World War 1997-2002
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:
- E10901#
- Title:
- E10901# Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland – Second World War 1997-2002
- Title (official language):
- E10901# Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz – Zweiter Weltkrieg 1997-2002
- Creator/accumulator:
- Independent Commission of Experts Switzerland - Second World War
- Date(s):
- 1929/1998
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 169.3 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection contains the written material of the independent commission of experts on Switzerland's role in the Second World War. There are numerous files in this collection which are of interest from a Jewish perspective. The various files cover different states and nations, but most of them deal with Switzerland.
There is a file containing articles and studies, a file containing documents on further training, internal events and a symposium of the SIG (Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities), and a file containing reports and correspondence concerning transport issues. Another file contains a refugee report on “The return of the Jewish stamp by G Kreis“ and correspondence. In addition there are various personal files and research reports, e.g., on Switzerland's restricted payment transactions and the financial clearing and process. There are also several files on rescue operations for persecuted Jews, victim protection, passport forgery, etc., also in connection with the War Refugee Board. There is a file on the legal protection of Swiss Jews in the Nazi power structure between 1938 and 1951, as well as copies of sources on the subject of “Aryanisation”, Jewish organisations in Switzerland and Swiss Jews in Germany from the years 1935 to 1952 from the holdings of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG). A further file contains correspondence from the Economic Group for Private Insurance concerning liability for war damage and insurance policies for Jews. There is also a file containing minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors, statistics and correspondence of the Winterthur Insurance Company from 1929 to 1947, and another file containing similar documents of the Basler Insurance Company.
Files relating to Austria are also included in the collection. One file, for example, contains contributions, reports and various articles from the years 1998 and 1999. Furthermore, there are files from Austria on the estates of Anna Meyer and Dr Friedländer from the years 1938 to 1979. Furthermore, there are files with contributions and articles on private insurance, “Aryanisation” and Jews in Austria.
From the “Special Archive Moscow“ there are several copies of files from the German Ministry of Economics from the years 1935 to 1944. From German archives some microfilms of Foreign Office documents from the years 1938 to 1945 have been made, which mainly deal with German emigrant activities abroad and Jewish issues. In addition, there is a file on a project of the Technical University of Berlin entitled “Rescue of the Jews in National Socialist Germany 1933-1945“ from 1998, and a copy of the book “Die Verdrängung der Juden aus der Wirtschaft im Dritten Reich“ by Helmut Genschel from 1966. There is also a file with correspondence from the German Supervisory Office and the Minister of Economics concerning pension payments to Jews in 1938-1939 and a file concerning an amendment to the Rent Act for Jews in 1939. The collection also contains other files with documents from the Ministry of Economics concerning its measures for the economic exclusion and exploitation of Jews. Among other things, there is a file of lawsuits filed by emigrated Jews against the Swiss Reinsurance Company Zurich between 1942 and 1944, and a file of correspondence between the German Insurance Association of private insurers and its specialist groups on the modalities of property confiscation of Jews between 1934 and 1944.
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- Archival history:
- The documents of the Independent Commission of Experts 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
- Access points: persons/families:
- Friedlander
- Subject terms:
- Historical research
- World War II
- 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
