Hugo Schriesheimer papers Nachlass Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989)

Identifier
irn558458
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2017.94.1
  • RG-58.048
Dates
1 Jan 1905 - 31 Dec 2011
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • French
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn558458

Extent and Medium

1,722 digital images, PDF

Creator(s)

  • Hugo Schriesheimer

Biographical History

Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989) was a Holocaust survivor and Zionist from Konstanz, Germany who fled to Switzerland and emigrated after the war to the United States. He returned in his later years to Switzerland and settled in Kreuzlingen.

Archival History

Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

Acquisition

Source of acquisition is the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland; Archival signature: NL Hugo Schriesheimer. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s International Archives Project in March 2017.

Scope and Content

Private papers of Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989), Holocaust survivor from Konstanz, Germany. The collection consists of school and work documents, passports, identity cards, photographs concerning childhood and youth in Konstanz as well as imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp and Gurs internment camp, and asylum in Switzerland; correspondence, lectures, publications, newspaper clippings, and various documents relating to the Memorial Museum in Gurs and the 50th anniversary of the "Reichskristallnacht" in Konstanz.

System of Arrangement

Arranged in four series: 1.Biographical materials; 2. Photographs; 3. Correspondence; 4. Publications and various memorial documentations. Notes: Empty units: File #7, 26, 29, 34 (Publications, newspaper clippings)

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte - Archivleitung

People

  • Schriesheimer, Hugo, 1908-1989.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Holocaust survivors--Switzerland--Biography.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Jews--Germany--Konstanz--History--20th century.
  • Konstanz (Germany)
  • Switzerland--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.