Metadata: Estate of Erich Holländer
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 Erich Holländer
- Title:
- Estate of Erich Holländer
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Erich Holländer
- Creator/accumulator:
- Holländer, Erich
- Date(s):
- 1908/1995
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.01 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection mainly contains documents concerning family history and Erich Holländer’s time as a refugee in Swiss labour camps between 1940 and 1944.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the Archives of Contemporary History (AfZ) in 1994/1995.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Erich Holländer was born in Vienna on 17 November 1909 and died in St. Gallen on 28 September 1994. He had a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. Holländer was part of the Socialist movement in the 1920s and 30s. In 1938, he fled to Switzerland following the November Pogroms and undertook several unsuccessful attempts to enter the country near Singen, Radolfszell and Lindau, where he was expelled from the "Altreich" with a corresponding passport entry. After successfully crossing the border, he was brought to the internment camp in Diepoldsau and later in Felsberg near Chur. In 1946/47, Holländer settled in St. Gallen while retaining his Austrian citizenship. Until 1975, he worked as a commercial employee at the Schindler lift company in St. Gallen.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- Internment
- Personal records
- Refugees
- 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