Metadata: Estate of Marianne Gromb-Gumpertz
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 Marianne Gromb-Gumpertz
- Title:
- Estate of Marianne Gromb-Gumpertz
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Marianne Gromb-Gumpertz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Gromb-Gumpertz, Marianne
- Date(s):
- 1945/1999
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.1 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection holds Marianne Gromb-Gumpertz’s correspondence with Bob Dubacher and research documents concerning her acquisition of Swiss citizenship.
- Archival history:
- The document were handed over to the AfZ by Marianne Gromb-Gumpertz in 1999.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Mirjam Marianne Gromb-Gumpertz, a nurse and housewife, was born in Hamburg on 18 June 1920 and died on 26 July 2011 in Zurich. She was the daughter of Simon and Karoline (née Pessel) and the sister of Melitta and Walter. Through her grandfather Hermann Gumpertz (born in 1851) the German family acquired Swiss citizenship in 1868. In July 1933, she reached Switzerland with a Pro Juventute transport. She stayed in the Children's Home Wartheim, Heiden. In July 1933, her parents moved to Switzerland where they resided in Binningen, BL. From 1933 to 1937, Marianne Gromb-Gumpertz attended the girl‘s school in Basel. In 1937, she met Bob Dubacher of Hamburg in preparation for the Zionist Congress in Zurich. They started writing letters to each other, documenting life in Germany and her friend’s escape from Germany to England. In 1940, the correspondence broke off. In 1944, she married David Gromb. From 1945 to 1961, the couple lived in Palestine/Israel.
- Access points: locations:
- Germany
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- World War II
- Access, restrictions:
- Partially restricted. Subject to application.
- 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