Metadata: Estate of Mathilde Richter-Hasgall
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 M Richter-Hasgall
- Title:
- Estate of Mathilde Richter-Hasgall
- Title (official language):
- Kopienbestand Mathilde Richter-Hasgall
- Creator/accumulator:
- Richter-Hasgall, Mathilde
- Date(s):
- 1901/1998
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.02 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- This collection of copied documents primarily reflects central aspects of the life of Mathilde Richter-Hasgall's Jewish family in Switzerland, originally from Germany. Most of the original files are kept in the Swiss Federal Archives in Bern, some others are in private possession of the family. The collection includes memoirs of Mathilde Richter's mother about the life of the family in the Jewish community of Gailingen, as well as notes on an interview with Mathilde Richter-Hasgall. It also contains correspondence of the family with various federal police and labour offices regarding the legal residence status of the family between 1941 and 1947; with emigration offices in the German Reich as well as in Switzerland regarding the family's efforts to facilitate the emigration to Palestine for their relatives who had remained in Germany.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ in 1998.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Mathilde Richter-Hasgall was born on 4 March 1933. She was the daughter of Helene and Abraham Hasgall, whose family had moved from Gailingen (Germany) to Diessenhofen in 1921. There the grandfather, Moritz Hasgall, had founded a stamp and sign factory in the 1870s, which became the property of his sons Abraham and Leopold Hasgall in 1920. In 1928, Mathilde’s parents Abraham Hasgall and Helene Sondheimer married in Switzerland. In 1941, the family lost its German citizenship due to the anti-Jewish legislation of the National Socialists. Each year, the family had to apply to the Swiss authorities for an extension of the tolerance permit. After the war the family regained its settlement permit. Two petitions by Abraham Hasgall to obtain Swiss citizenship were rejected by the Diessenhofen local assembly. In 1958, Mathilde Richter became Swiss by marriage, her parents remained stateless for the rest of their lives.
- Access points: locations:
- Gailingen
- Subject terms:
- Memoirs
- Migration
- 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