Cooperation with the PFH
The Archive and Documentation Centre
for Social and Educational Work of Women
The centre was established in 2000 as a cooperation between the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences (ASFH Berlin) and the
Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus (PFH).
It includes the Alice Salomon Archive and the
On 18 May 2001 it was opened and presented to the public with a colloqium on "Social education and gender relations 1900 to 2000" and a ceremony in which the Alice-Salomon-Award was given to the Israeli professor and feminist Alice Shalvi.
The Centre serves to document the development of modern social education and social work since its beginnings in the 19th century and during the National Socialist era. Both the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus, founded by Henriette Schrader-Breymann, and the Soziale Frauenschule, founded by Alice Salomon, were outstanding educational projects of the women's movement. The Centre should also be a place for the discussion of related themes of current interest.
It is located in the former study of Alice Salomon and the neighbouring rooms of the old building of the Soziale Frauenschule, today the house no.3 of the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus.
The intention of the Archives and Documentation Centre is
- the collecting and preserving of the historical documents and their availability to the public
- the promoting of the interchange between "Fachhochschulen, Universitäten, Fachschulen" and social/educational practice
- the support of relevant research.
