IASSW Online Documentation 1929 – 1936 of the Alice Salomon Archives
The object of the Committee of Schools for Social Work
„is to bring about an exchange of opinion and experience between schools of social work and to deal with all problems of international co-operation of these schools, such as the exchange of teachers and students, the organisation of a centre of dodumentation and information, the formation of international social study-courses and the participation in the preparation of international congresses for social work.“
(Protocol of 1929 June 12, G1_p.19)
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The online documentation of the early history of the International Committee of Schools for Social Work – ICSSW [today: International Association of Schools of Social Work – IASSW] contains the complete collection of papers of this period held by the Alice-Salomon-Archives (112 Pages). The foundation of the ICSSW has been the result of the first international meeting of schools of social work, which took place on the occasion of the International Conference of Social Work in Paris in 1928. Alice Salomon was asked to prepare a meeting to set up an international association of the schools and she became its first secretary from 1928 to 1937/39.
The documentation of the Committee begins with the „Constitution of the Committee“ (English and German) and the first letters of Alice Salomon in 1929, in which she writes about the organization of the constituing meeting of the Committee in Berlin at the „Soziale Frauenschule“ in June 1929. The documentation ends with letters of 1935 addressed to Alice Salomon as the secretary of the Committee, in which the German Schools state their withdrawal from the Committee due to the refusal of the ICSSW to dismiss Alice Salomon from her functions. The years between 1935 and 1939, when the Committee interrupted its work, are not documented in the Alice-Salomon-Archives (which were developed on the basis of the archives of the „Soziale Frauenschule“ founded in 1908 by Alice Salomon). The former Alice Salomon School left the ICSSW in 1935 as all the German schools did (see the letter of Nov. 25, 1935.). The last document of this online documentation dates from 1936. It is a donation from the daughter of the Japanese social worker, Kiyoshi Ikegawa, who met Alice Salomon 1936 in London, a year before she was exiled from Germany by the Gestapo.
In addition the collection of the International Committee of Schools for Social Work contains documents from 1929 to 1936 – mostly written by Alice Salomon – such as invitations for the meetings, protocols, lists of members of the Committee and lists of participants of the meetings as well as programmes of the meetings and summer schools, reports on the current work and on the development of the schools and discussion papers on different subjects.
The papers are written in German or in English and French. The resolutions of the Committee are translated into each of the three languages.
At the top of each page the signature is noted.
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