Benjamin Sagalowitz
Benjamin Sagalowitz (born June 3, 1901 in Vitebsk ; † 1970 ) was a Swiss journalist and head of the Jewish news .
Life
Benjamin Sagalowitz came to Switzerland in 1914 and received his PhD from the University of Zurich in 1928. iur. PhD . He then worked as a journalist. From 1938 to 1964 he was head of the Jüdische Nachrichten, a press service for the Swiss Association of Israelites (SIG) . Since 1938 he also headed its department for public relations and press affairs. He followed the Nuremberg follow-up trials from 1948 to 1949 as an accredited press correspondent for various Jewish and non-Jewish newspapers, including the Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 1961–1962 he was press correspondent for the Eichmann trial .
Sagalowitz set up a documentation archive for the Jewish news about the increasing disenfranchisement and murder of Jews in the National Socialist sphere of influence, also relying on information from Eduard Schulte . After the Second World War he added documentation to the war crimes trials and reparations to the archive .
He was a member of the Central Committee of the Swiss Zionist Organization and a member of the Social Democratic Party in Zurich.
literature
- Karin Huser: Sagalowitz, Benjamin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland ., 2011
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sagalowitz, Benjamin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vitebsk |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1970 |