Metadata: Association of Jewish Students in Switzerland – Historical Archive
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 VJSS-Archiv
- Title:
- Association of Jewish Students in Switzerland – Historical Archive
- Title (official language):
- Verband Jüdischer Studenten Historisches Archiv
- Creator/accumulator:
- Association of Jewish Students in Switzerland
- Date(s):
- 1946/1975
- Language:
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 5.9 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains material from the Basel, Bern, Geneva and Zurich sections. The activities of the largest section, Zurich, are documented in detail, although not completely. There are considerable gaps in the collection with regard to the other sections. The supplementary collection covers the 1960s and 1970s. The collection contains minutes of meetings, reports 1946-1957, newsletters 1946-1957, membership lists, delegates' meetings 1947-1957 and accounts as well as correspondence of the sections concerning social, cultural and international organisations, reparations, student camps, member surveys (university statistics).
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ (Archives of Contemporary History) in several deliveries between 1997 and 2015.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Association of Jewish Students in Switzerland (VJSS) was founded in 1946 as the umbrella organisation for Jewish students in Switzerland and dissolved in 1969.
- Subject terms:
- Education
- Education--Schools and universities
- Education--Students
- Access, restrictions:
- No open access. Subject to application.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2020
