Metadata: Estate of Ernst Kaldeck
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 Ernst Kaldeck
- Title:
- Estate of Ernst Kaldeck
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Ernst Kaldeck
- Creator/accumulator:
- Kaldeck, Ernst
- Date(s):
- 1940/2001
- Language:
- German
- French
- Extent:
- 0.03 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection mainly comprises official files in the form of circulars and appeals from the police department of the Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) or the central management of the homes and labour camps for refugees and emigrants in the years 1940 to 1945 and the Central Office for Refugee Aid concerning onward migration and repatriation of refugees from 1944 onward. There are also some files and newspaper clippings on the Montreux Refugee Conference of February/March 1945. Particularly noteworthy--even if there is little evidence for it--is the submission to the FDJP in March 1945 by a number of refugees from the Beatenberg camp (including Wilhelm Fischer) who, on behalf of the refugees from Bergen-Belsen, opposed forced relocation abroad (H. Rothmund's plans included a transfer to Philippeville, North Africa) and were supported by other refugees with signature sheets.
- Archival history:
- The present individual holdings of Ernst Kaldeck were handed over to the AfZ by his widow, Ms Tilly Kaldeck, on 16 June 1994. Subsequent deliveries from 1998 and 2000 supplemented the small collection.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Ernst Kaldeck was born in Vienna in 1902 and died in Zurich in 1977. He began to study economics and electrical engineering and emigrated as a Jewish refugee via Aachen to Antwerp in 1938. In May 1940, he fled to France and was put in the camps of St. Cyprien and Gurs. In 1942, he escaped from the threat of deportation to Geneva and was kept in various Swiss camps, including in Valais, Büren near Reigoldswil and Basel. He did drainage and blasting work until he was injured. Then he worked in an office as employee of the home management. He was responsible for administration and social affairs at the Beatenberg home. Kaldeck was in contact with refugee organisations and in 1945 he was a delegate of the Beatenberg home to the Montreux conference on return and onward migration issues in Montreux. In 1946, he married Tilly Cohn (born 1914 in Zurich) and settled in Zurich.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- Access points: persons/families:
- Cohn
- Subject terms:
- 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