Metadata: Estate of Yvonne Brunschvig-Sipos
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:
- NL Yvonne Brunschvig-Sipos
- Title:
- Estate of Yvonne Brunschvig-Sipos
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Yvonne Brunschvig-Sipos
- Creator/accumulator:
- Brunschvig-Sipos, Yvonne
- Date(s):
- 1922/2000
- Language:
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 0.04 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The biographical interviews from the years 1999 and 2000 are central to the collection, as are files on the family of Brunschvig-Sipos in Romania and Hungary from the pre-war period and naturalisation correspondence from Switzerland from the post-war period.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ in 2000 by Yvonne Brunschvig-Sipos. Additional material on the Brunschvig-Sipos family can be found in the IB SIG archive (in particular a taped interview with Jean Brunschvig) and in the IB VSJF archive (refugee file p. 978, Jolanda Sipos).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Yvonne Brunschvig-Sipos was born in Cluj/Klausenburg (now Romania) on 20 June 1926 and died in 2007 in Geneva. She was the daughter of Yolanda and Marcel Sipos, general director of “Foresta AG“, an international timber company based in Zurich. From 1930 to 1941, she attended elementary school and high school in Bucharest until the family had to flee from the regime of the “Iron Guard“ to Budapest. From 1941 to 1944, Brunschvig-Sipos attended high school in Budapest, but was arrested and deported to Bergen-Belsen after the German occupation of Hungary in 1944. In December 1944, the family was rescued in the second Kasztner transport from Bergen-Belsen to Switzerland. Internment in the refugee camp in Caux sur Montreux followed. The family was released from the camp in 1945 into private internment in Zurich. Later, Brunschvig-Sipos studied social and economic sciences at the University of Geneva. In 1950, she married a Swiss man and became a citizen of Switzerland, while her parents remained stateless throughout their lives. From 1950 to 1964, Brunschvig-Sipos worked as a journalist. In 1964, she married for a second time. Her second husband was Jean Brunschvig (son of Armand Brunschvig), lawyer and long-standing president of the Jewish Community of Geneva.
- Access points: locations:
- Budapest
- Cluj
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- Citizenship
- Memoirs
- Personal records
- 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