Metadata: Estate of Otto Siegfried Leib
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 Otto Siegfried Leib
- Title:
- Estate of Otto Siegfried Leib
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Otto Siegfried Leib
- Creator/accumulator:
- Leib, Otto Siegfried
- Date(s):
- 1968/2002
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.08 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection mainly contains autobiographical documents of Otto Siegfried Leib and correspondence with the Grüninger family.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ in 1994/1995.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Otto Siegfried Leib, a craftsman and auxiliary policeman, was born in Kreuzlingen on 5 August 1909 and died on 31 May 2002. He was the son of a Jew from Constance and Hedwig Bloch, a Zurich native. He went to school in Constance after the family moved there from Kreuzlingen. From 1926 to 1928, Leib was a commercial apprentice in Nuremberg and Bochum. In 1929, he returned to Constance after the first anti-Semitic attacks. In 1933, he fled to Switzerland without being recognised as a refugee and continued his migration via Prague and Trieste to Palestine where he worked as a swimming teacher and lifeguard. In 1935, he married and in 1937, he emigrated to the USA where he trained as a construction welder in New York. Leib later moved to New Milton (NJ) where he worked as a voluntary auxiliary police officer from 1957 and 1991. In 1972, he visited Paul Grüninger in St. Gallen and retired two years later.
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- Subject terms:
- Personal records
- 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