Metadata: Archive and documentation of JUNA and the news agency of the SIG
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Contemporary History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv für Zeitgeschichte der ETH Zürich
- Postal address:
- Hirschengraben 62, CH-8092 Zurich
- Phone number:
- +41 44 632 40 03
- Web address:
- https://www.afz.ethz.ch/
- Email:
- afz@history.gess.ethz.ch
- Reference number:
- IB JUNA-Archiv
- Title:
- Archive and documentation of JUNA and the news agency of the SIG
- Title (official language):
- JUNA Geschäftsarchiv und Dokumentation der Pressestelle des SIG
- Creator/accumulator:
- Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities
- Date(s):
- 1870/2001
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 59.25 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
The collection includes material of the JUNA (Jüdische Nachrichten; Jewish News) concerning Judaism (general, individuals, history, population statistics, associations and institutions), antisemitism and defence against it (documents on the trial of David Frankfurter in Chur and on the Bern and Basel trials of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 1933-1939 and others), the renewal movements and right-wing bourgeois groups ("Schweizerischer Vaterländischer Verband" and others), Frontism (individual organisations and press organs, personal files, processes), refugees (individual fates, emigrant culture, refugee assistance, refugee children, refugee camps, military internees), refugee policy (asylum law, permanent asylum, naturalisation, refugee debates, "refugee hounding", J-stamp, documentation on the "Ludwig Report", Heinrich Rothmund, return and onward migration), Nazi persecution of Jews and Switzerland (releases to the public, press reports, statements, legal status and protection of Swiss Jews abroad, relief and rescue operations and the "Ludwig Report", Heinrich Rothmund, return and onward migration), Swiss relations with Germany from 1933 to 1945 (including Germans in Switzerland), relations with other countries (Russia, Hungary, etc.), controversies about foreigners and their attitude toward National Socialism (Veit Harlan and others), antisemitism and defence ("collective honour violation", right-wing extremism; "Christian-Jewish Working Community", CJA; relationship with postwar Germany; Zionism, Palestine, Israel, Middle East from 1932) etc.
In addition to print materials (press cuttings, brochures, leaflets, etc.), the documentation also contains extensive original files (correspondence, reports, trial records, etc.).
- Archival history:
- The SIG handed over the JUNA archive to the AfZ in 1993/94. The holdings were reorganised in the course of a project lasting several years and systematically catalogued for the first time.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The JUNA (Jüdische Nachrichten; Jewish News) was founded in 1936 and existed until around 1970. The JUNA was created in 1936 as the press office of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG) with the aim of opposing the increasing antisemitism of the German National Socialists and the Swiss front movement. JUNA informed numerous editorial offices in Switzerland through its press bulletins in German and French.
- Access points: locations:
- Basel
- Bern
- Switzerland
- Zurich
- Access points: persons/families:
- Frankfurter
- Guggenheim
- Subject terms:
- Antisemitism
- Jewish press
- Refugees
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://onlinearchives.ethz.ch/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2019
