Metadata: Estate of Samuel JeanRichard
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 Samuel JeanRichard
- Title:
- Estate of Samuel JeanRichard
- Title (official language):
- Nachlass Samuel JeanRichard
- Creator/accumulator:
- JeanRichard,Samuel
- Date(s):
- 1920/2002
- Language:
- German
- French
- English
- Italian
- Extent:
- 1.3 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
-
In addition to biographical documents, the collection documents Samuel JeanRichard's activities as head of labour camps and refugee homes, as inspector of the central management of the labour camps (Zentralleitung der Arbeitslager, ZL) and as head of the education department of the training and leisure department of the ZL. This material is an important addition to the estates of other ZL staff members such as Hans Pfeiffer, Charlotte Weber and Otto Zaugg. Particularly worthy of mention is the collection of 403 drawings (mainly coloured pencil on paper) made by refugee children for an exhibition shown at ETH Zurich in 1945. The drawings are supplemented by 140 questionnaires that provide information (surname, first name, date of birth, nationality, denomination, escape route, traumatic experiences, etc.) about the refugee children. The signature allocation of the refugee children’s drawings is based on a list drawn up by Samuel JeanRichard. Registration by name of the directory units with the information contained in the questionnaires is available in the refugee database of the AfZ.
Also included are a further 319 drawings by unknown children which were exhibited at the International Study Conference on the Psychology of Children's Drawings, organised by Samuel JeanRichard, at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich in 1952. Extensive private and professional correspondence - in particular correspondence with refugees - forms a further focal point of the collection. The collection is rounded off by a personal photo album, which focuses on military service and active service.
- Archival history:
- Samuel JeanRichard handed over the first documents to the AfZ (Archives of Contemporary History) in 1993, which he supplemented with further deliveries until 2001. The last additional delivery was made in 2003 by his daughter Anne Wanner-JeanRichard.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Samuel Werner JeanRichard was born in Bern on 9 April 1912 and died in Mettmenstetten (ZH) on 8 October 2002. He was the son of William Théophile, chaplain in the Deaconess House, and Anna, née Feldmann. In 1936, he married Ruth von Fischer, daughter of Gottlieb Albert. The couple divorced in 1967. He studied natural sciences at the University of Bern and in 1934 he earned his secondary teacher's diploma. Between 1934 and 1939, he completed further training as a drawing instructor and industrial school teacher. In 1942, he became auxiliary leader in the labour camp in Thalheim (AG) and in October 1942, deputy head of the labour camp in Davesco (TI). Later he became head of a refugee home for women in Kriens (LU), which opened in 1943, and camp director at Saint-Cergue (VD). In August 1943, he was named inspector of the central management of the labour camps and in August 1944, head of the education department in the training and leisure division. In 1945, he participated in the exhibition of drawings by refugee children at the conference "Semaines d`Etudes pour l`Enfance victime de la Guerre (SEPEG), ETH Zurich 10.9.-29.9.1945." JeanRichard resigned in 1946. He then worked as a teacher at the Gewerbeschule Zürich from 1946 to 1968.
- Access points: locations:
- Zurich
- 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
