Metadata: Non-Governmental Collections, PA Political Parties, Movements and Organisations
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- State Archives of Luzern
- Holding institution (official language):
- Staatsarchiv Luzern
- Postal address:
- Schützenstrasse 9, CH-6000 Luzern
- Phone number:
- +41 41 228 53 65
- Web address:
- https://staatsarchiv.lu.ch/
- Email:
- staatsarchiv@lu.ch
- Reference number:
- PA
- Title:
- Non-Governmental Collections, PA Political Parties, Movements and Organisations
- Title (official language):
- Nichtstaatliche Bestände, PA Politische Parteien, Bewegungen und Organisationen
- Date(s):
- 1891/1971
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- This is a constantly growing department within the archive.
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The Non-Governmental Collections include documents from numerous parties, movements and organisations.
The holdings of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (CVP Schweiz) (PA 40) include a file from 1970/1971 on a campaign for support of the Jews in the Soviet Union and a complete series entitled “Jews”.
Walter Sandberger's estate (PA 265) contains identity cards, certificates of good conduct, a German passport, an identity card for Jews (with a yellow star of cloth) from 1938 onwards, personal papers and letters from the Association of Jews in Germany, a summons from the American Embassy concerning a visa from 1940, an entry permit for Shanghai from 1941, and an undated leaflet concerning the obligation for Jews to register.
The holdings of the Swiss Pius Society and the Swiss Catholic Society (285) include a book by Josef Fuchs entitled “Kirchenvermögen - Judenvermögen, untersucht für Freund und Feind“ (church property – Jewish property, investigated for friend and foe) with the thesis to be answered whether the Catholic Church promotes superstition or not. Furthermore, it contains a book entitled “Failed Attacks on the Mosaic Reports“ and a book by Wolf Athanas entitled “Der ewige Preßjude oder: Die Mauschelperiode der deutschen Literatur“ (The eternal press-Jew or: German literature’s period of scheming) from 1891. Yet another book by J. G. Findel with the title “Die Juden als Freimaurer“ (the Jews as Freemasons) from 1893 can also be found.
In the collection of the Swiss Catholic People's Association (287) there are some pamphlets by Professor Johann Ude from Graz, of which the pamphlet “Die Judenfrage“ (the Jewish question) is of particular interest.
The estate of the Swiss journalist Xaver Schniepers (1910-1992) (411) consists of a reply letter from 1936 to the book project “Die Gefährdung des Christentums durch Rassenwahn und Judenverfolgung“ (the endangerment of Christianity through racial mania and the persecution of Jews) as well as several reports on the extermination of Jews in Hungary in 1944.
The photo archive of the “Luzerner Zeitung“ (1374) includes a file on a project for recreation and further education for young Jews in Engelberg in an aliyah home. 70 boys aged up to 17 who had survived a concentration camp were brought to Engelberg by the Red Cross.
(PA 40/3375; PA 265/2; PA 265/8; PA 265/17; PA 285/1376; PA 285/1404; PA 285/1463; PA 285/1528; PA 287/1710; PA 411/366; PA 411/430; PA 1374/508)
- Archival history:
- Most of the documents in this collection were probably gradually transferred to the State Archive.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The oldest documents of the State Archive date back to the 9th century, in transcripts from around 1150. The holdings of the archive can be divided into four groups: the administrative records of the city of Lucerne from the 13th to the 18th century, the documents of the cantonal administration and courts since 1798, the archives of the monasteries dissolved in the 19th century and the archives of private persons and institutions such as associations, political parties and industrial or commercial enterprises.
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Education
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Survivors
- Personal records
- World War II
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available, although the information is often rudimentary.
- Links to finding aids:
- https://query-staatsarchiv.lu.ch/volltextsuche.aspx
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020