Metadata: Yad Vashem Archives Jerusalem: Benjamin Sagalowitz Collection – Estate of Benjamin Sagalowitz
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:
- Yad Vashem P-13
- Title:
- Yad Vashem Archives Jerusalem: Benjamin Sagalowitz Collection – Estate of Benjamin Sagalowitz
- Title (official language):
- Yad Vashem Archives Jerusalem: Benjamin Sagalowitz Collection – Nachlass Benjamin Sagalowitz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sagalowitz, Benjamin
- Date(s):
- 1935/1960
- Language:
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 15 microfilms
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises copies of the estate of Benjamin Sagalowitz (1901-1970) on microfilm. The originals are at Yad Vashem.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ in 2010.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Benjamin Sagalowitz, a journalist, was born in Vitebsk (Russia; now Belarus) on 3 June 1901 and died on 4 June 1970. After the pogroms in 1905, his Jewish family emigrated to Wiesbaden, Germany, but moved to Switzerland in 1914. In 1953, Sagalowitz was granted civil rights in Bern. He attended school and studied law in Zurich. Sagalowitz became editor of the ‘Jüdisches Heim’ and editorial assistant at the Jewish Press Centre and the ‘Israelitisches Wochenblatt’. He participated as a reporter in the trial against David Frankfurter in Chur in 1936. From 1938 to 1964, he was head of the ‘Jüdische Nachrichten’ (JUNA) and the press and documentation office of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG). In the summer of 1942, he transmitted the information received from Eduard Schulte about the beginning of the planned mass murder of the Jews in Nazi-dominated Europe to Gerhard M Riegner of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Geneva, who subsequently alerted the global public. From 1945, Sagalowitz reported on the Nuremberg Trials on behalf of the NZZ. He was a Swiss delegate to the Zionist Congress in Jerusalem 1960/61 and participated as a reporter in 1961/1962 at the Eichmann Trial in Jerusalem and 1963 to 1965 at the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial for the NZZ. During his life, he conducted extensive research on the Holocaust, which remained unpublished.
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Professions
- Professions--Journalists
- 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
