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39 Hug, Analyse, 1996, p. 6.
40 This campaign was initiated in 1998 by the Bernese National Councilor François Loeb. He made an
appeal in the media to the Jewish refugees who were admitted to Switzerland during the Second
World War calling upon them to send reports and recorded memories of their stays in Swiss refugee
camps.
41 The Contemporary History Archives (Archiv für Zeitgeschichte, AfZ) at the Federal Institute of
Technology in Zurich has been holding a colloquium since 1973 under the direction of Klaus Urner,
in which people of importance in contemporary history present their considerable knowledge of the
past under expert supervision; a large number of wartime decision-makers told their story as part of
this series of colloquia. In the meantime the project entitled «Archimob», initiated by film-makers
and historians, has been realised and has amassed a wealth of audiovisual documentation: 555 video
interviews from all strata of society and parts of the country provide an interesting cross-section of
experiences in the war years. In addition, there is the «Memoriav», an association seeking to preserve
Switzerland’s audiovisual cultural assets; see www.memoriav.ch.
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