Spuren aus Ostmitteleuropa. Die Schweizerische Osteuropa-Bibliothek als Ort des Exils und seiner Erforschung By Eva Maurer and Tiphaine Robert -Retrouvez-moi sur Linekdin

https://www.academia.edu/35607288/Spuren_aus_Ostmitteleuropa_Die_Schweizerische_Osteuropa_Bibliothek_als_Ort_des_Exils_und_seiner_Erforschung?nav_from=1f9089f6-2f5c-40fc-86a7-02db5b333513 This contribution reflects on the traces that exile and migration from Central Europe have left in Switzerland’s largest specialized library, the Swiss Library of Eastern Europe (Schweizerische Osteuropabibliothek SOEB) during and after the Cold War. It contextualizes the founding of the library in the aftermath of the Hungarian refugee influx, and shows how the paths of political emigrants have crossed in the library, both as users and as staff who played an important part in building up the library’s large collections. In a third section, the contribution focuses on the collection and possible topics that the library makes accessible to researchers. The contribution gives an overview of other memory institutions in Switzerland that also hold pertinent material and it closes with a few thoughts on the future challenges of preserving source material for the study of exile and emigration in Switzerland and internationally.