Metadata: Research documentation Heinz Bachmann
Collection
- Country:
- Switzerland
- Holding institution:
- Archives of Contemporary History at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv für Zeitgeschichte der ETH Zürich
- Postal address:
- Hirschengraben 62, CH-8092 Zurich
- Phone number:
- +41 44 632 40 03
- Web address:
- https://www.afz.ethz.ch/
- Email:
- afz@history.gess.ethz.ch
- Reference number:
- FD Heinz Bachmann
- Title:
- Research documentation Heinz Bachmann
- Title (official language):
- Forschungsdokumentation Heinz Bachmann
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bachmann, Heinz; Stark, Marton; Welti, Elise; International Tracing Service
- Date(s):
- 1920s/2016
- Language:
- German
- English
- Extent:
- 0.05 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Moving images
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises the research documentation of Heinz Bachmann. It includes the “Memories of Holocaust Survivor Marton Stark”, transcribed by Elise Welti, portrait and group photos by and with Elise Welti, photos of a concentration camp, a video interview of the “Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation“ with Marton Stark as well as correspondence between Heinz Bachmann, the International Tracing Service and other institutions with Marton Stark. The collection also includes administrative documents, copies from the archive of the International Tracing Services, press articles about Von Auschwitz nach Beverly Hills and documents regarding Heinz Bachmann's receipt of the Kurt Bigler Prize and Marton Stark's involvement as a witness of the Holocaust.
- Archival history:
- The documents were handed over to the AfZ by Heinz Bachmann in 2015 and 2016. Partially, the documents originate from Elise Welti (1900-1964), Bachmann’s great aunt. The other part of the documents was written by Heinz Bachmann himself.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- During the Second World War, Elise Welti worked as a Red Cross aide and met Marton Stark, who came from a Jewish family in Halmi (now in Romania). As a teenager, Stark arrived in Switzerland from the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945 and spent some time at the Etania sanatorium in Davos. Welti regularly visited Stark, encouraged him to write down his experiences, and transcribed his diary into correct German. Heinz Bachmann found these documents during the clearing of his parents' house. They became the starting point for his search for the Holocaust survivor Marton Stark. Files from the AfZ and the International Tracing Service enabled Bachmann eventually to locate and personally meet him in the USA.
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Finding aids:
- An online finding aid is available.
- Links to finding aids:
- http://onlinearchives.ethz.ch/
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Hohenems
- Author of the description:
- Severin Holzknecht; Jewish Museum of Hohenems; 2019
