Verband Schweizerischer Jüdischer Fürsorgen

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn72306
• English
• 1926-1990
• 861,511 digital images, PDF
• Updated 7 months ago

Jewish refugee dossiers with biographical data for individuals who were getting support and care provided by the Verband Schweizerischer Juedischer Fürsorgen (VSJF). The dossiers include documentation and correspondence regarding entry and leaving the country, family relatives living in Switzerland and abroad, legal status, aid provided, accommodations, educational programs, health problems, internment in labor camps, professional occupation, legal processes, Jewish property and restitution matters, etc.; VSJF office files during period of years 1944-1979: protocols, minutes, correspondence...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn558193
• English
• 1906-2004
• 2,607 digital images, PDF
• Updated 7 months ago

Private papers of Otto Heim (1896-1978) and Régine Heim (1907-2004), a Jewish Swiss aid worker for Jewish refugees. The collection consists of biographical documents as a marriage certificate, testimonies, speeches at private and family occasions, among others, the speech on 70th birthday of Otto H. Heim, the farewell address of Edi Braunschweig, the report on a trip to Israel 1950, documents on the family history of Otto Heim and his wife Régine Fraydenraich [Freidenreich]; articles, essays, among others: "The confessional and national structure of the population of Switzerland"; a speech ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47982
• English
• 1915-2000
• 4,382 digital images, PDF
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains personal papers of Erich A. Hausmann, the Swiss-Jewish educator and pedagogue. Papers consist of his biographical materials and documentation on helping Jewish refugee children and youth during and after the war. Erich A. Hausmann worked with many organizations as the Schweizer Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder (SHEK), Verband Schweizerischer Jüdischer Fürsorgen (VSJF), Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), Jüdisches Lehrerseminar Basel, and the Jüdische Schule Zürich (JSZ).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn533246
• English
• 1945-1954
• 748 microfilm reels (digitized), 35 mm digital images,
• Updated 7 months ago

Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Geneva Office, relating to global overseas operations in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period: global rescue and relief efforts, primarily focused on resettling Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors around the world; facilitating the renewal of Jewish life in Europe; rebuilding Jewish communal institutions; and providing sustaining aid to the remnants of Jewish communities worldwide. This collection include: correspondence; committee and board meeting minutes; field reports from worldwide staff; budgets; income a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn539541
• English
• 1944-1949
• 2,302 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Selected files of the Switzerland Mission (S-1405), 1944-1949: Records include statistics, correspondence, files of displaced persons, lists of children, offers of temporary asylum for children, movement of children to Switzerland, Red Cross actions and personal inquires requesting tracing of individuals, as well as reports on activities of the UN relating to refugees and displaced persons.

1. Manuskripte
2. Abhandlungen, Studien, Berichte

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• MS 209 / 1
• German
• 1955
• Manuskripte 77 Seiten + 124 Seiten
• Updated 9 years ago

Dokumentation mit umfangreichen Anhang (Abschriften aus zeitgenössischen Presse- und Augenzeugenberichten); (1936-1945) Mschr., Xerogr.