Metadata: Estate of Alfred Ledermann
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 Alfred Ledermann
- Title:
- Estate of Alfred Ledermann
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Alfred Ledermann
- Creator/accumulator:
- Ledermann, Alfred
- Date(s):
- 1945/2006
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.25 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection mainly contains biographical documents such as biographical sketch, autobiographical reviews and appreciations as well as memorial albums on Alfred Ledermann’s work with young people from the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ in 2007.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Alfred Ledermann was born in Basel on 11 September 1919. He studied law at the University of Basel and earned his doctorate in 1944. In 1945, he took care of young people from Buchenwald for the SRC children's aid organisation and from 1945 to 1947 he worked for the Schweizer Spende (Swiss donation) in Gelsenkirchen and elsewhere. From 1958 to 1979, he was central secretary of Pro Juventute.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- 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; 2020
