Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documentation and articles regarding Swiss government policy towards refugees, 1950-1958

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documentation and articles regarding Swiss government policy towards refugees, 1950-1958 In the file: Documentation regarding Simon Zehngut, a Jewish refugee from Vienna; - Letter from Heinrich Rothmund regarding an article in the "Beobachter" newspaper regarding Rothmund's policy towards refugees when he was head of the police section at the Swiss Ministry of Justice during the war, 09 August 1954); - Letter from Otto Heim, director of VSJF (Association of Swiss Jewish Welfare and Refugee Relief Organizations), to the Ministry of Justice regarding Zehngut, 03 April 1954; Photographs of Zehngut's 1938 passport with the letter "J", indicating that he is Jewish; - Documentation regarding the report by Carl Ludwig regarding Swiss policy towards refugees during the Nazi era, including a series of articles by Sagalowitz, 01 November 1957; - Correspondence with Georges Braunschvig, a SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland)leader, regarding the publication of Ludwig's report, February 1958; - Correspondence with the newspaper, "Der Tat", regarding an article by Gottlieb Duttweiler, a Swiss businessman and politician, regarding VSJF activities on behalf of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 29 and 30 June 1950; - Photographs of the passport of Richard Willstaetter, a German Jew, with the letter "J", May 1941; - Letter from C. Ludwig to B. Sagalowitz asking to receive material for his article, 09 June 1955; - Numerous handwritten notes regarding Swiss policy towards the refugees. There is additional information regarding Jewish refugees in Switzerland: Yad Vashem Archives P.13 files 14, 65, 67, 69, 71, 76, 94-96, 103, 104, 204, 208 and 209.