[Court case material for the Bern trial]
Extent and Medium
1 electronic resource (51 pages)
Creator(s)
- Wiener Library (custody)
- Ben-Itto, Hadassa (collector)
Scope and Content
The file contains correspondences of several people and organizations, concerning the Protocols of the wise man of Zion and the Bern trial, from September 1934. In most of the letters the topic is the preparation for the Bern trial and the exchange of informations. Involved people exchanged the trial materials and prepared themselves for the opening of the trial. Letters from and to the Israelischen Kultusgemeinde Zuerich and from and to the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities are attached. Also correspondences of private people connected to and working for the Bern trial like Dr. Alfred Wiener, Oscar Meyer, David Farbstein, Saly Mayer, Elias Cerikover and Jules Dreyfus-Brodsky are also attached. Information about the intended strategies for the trial and financial matters are exchanged, especially by the experts Arthur Baumgarten and Carl Albert Loosli. Discussions about payments and salaries can be seen. Also the selection of witnesses and their hearings was prepared and discussed. Translated correspondences between Carl Albert Loosli, A.S. Tager and Dr. Sergej Bagockij are attached. The topics in these letters are mostly the collection of information and material from the Soviet Union in order to prepare the Bern trial. Furthermore information about the work and life of Sergiei Nilus and the spreading of his book (The Great within the Small and Antichrist, an Imminent Political Possibility. Notes of an Orthodox Believer) are shared. Reports in French and Swiss newspapers regarding the events before the Bern trial and the distribution of the Protocols of the wise man of Zion in Europe can also be read. In addition Telegrams asking for information about the events in the Bern trial and handwritten letters are attached.
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Electronic text and image data Jerusalem Yad Vashem 2015
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People
- Jewish Agency for Israel
- Baumgarten, Arthur, 1884-1966
- Lifschitz, Boris
- Mayer, Sally, 1875-1953
- Dreyfus-Brodsky, Jules, 1859-1941
- Farbstein, David, 1868-1953
- Tager, A. S. (Aleksandr Semenovich), 1888-1939
- Loosli, Carl Albert, 1877-1959
- Wiener, Alfred, 1885-1964
- Nilus, Sergiei, 1862-1930
- Cherikover, I. M., 1881-1943
Subjects
- Press--Bern trial--20th century.
- Antisemitism--Switzerland--20th century.
- Jewish lawyers--Switzerland.
- Conspiracies.
- Press--Switzerland--Bern--History
- Jews--Press coverage
- Antisemitism--Europe--History--20th century.
- Anti-Jewish propaganda.
- Bern Trial, Bern, Switzerland, 1934-1935.