Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) correspondence, conducted by Saly Mayer, mainly with VSIA (Switzerland’s Jewish Aid Committee) regarding help to Jewish refugees, 1934-1938

Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland) correspondence, conducted by Saly Mayer, mainly with VSIA (Switzerland’s Jewish Aid Committee) regarding help to Jewish refugees, 1934-1938 In the file: - SIG correspondence, conducted by Saly Mayer, with VSIA regarding help to refugees; the correspondence contains much financial data regarding expenses incurred on behalf of the refugees with a few names mentioned from time to time; - Report about the VSIA General Meeting held in Zurich, 25 February 1935; Erwin Huettner was the VSIA director at that time; - Letter from Heinrich Rothmund, head of the police department in the Swiss Federal Office of Justice and Police, to the Schweizerische Zentralstelle Fuer Fluechtlinge (Central Office for Matters Pertaining to Refugees in Switzerland), 10 August 1936; - Letter from VSIA to Bernhard Kahn, the director of the JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) Paris office, urgently requesting funding for activities on behalf of the refugees in Switzerland, 04 September 1936; - Report on the Conference in Aid of Jewish Immigrants and Refugees from Central Europe, held in Vienna, 15-16 November 1937; - Survey of emigration of Jews according to the lands to which they emigrated, December 1937; - Information about the care given to Jewish refugees arriving in Switzerland after the Anschluss, and in particular, after the sealing of the border by the Swiss, 19 August 1938; - Handwritten notes made by Saly Mayer regarding his discussion with Heinrich Rothmund regarding the refugees, 30 August 1938.