Metadata: Estate of Max Solevicz
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 Max Solevicz
- Title:
- Estate of Max Solevicz
- Title (official language):
- Nachlass Max Solevicz
- Creator/accumulator:
- Solevicz, Max
- Date(s):
- 1939/2005
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.4 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains identity cards, a biographical sketch, correspondence with the immigration authorities and objects and textiles from the concentration camp. It also includes a manuscript about Solevicz’s time in concentration camps, press articles about him and photos.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Max Solevicz, an engineer, was born in Zurich on 2 October 1910 and died in St. Gallen on 20 September 2003. His parents were of Jewish-Polish origin; he had three older siblings. Solevicz studied engineering and graduated in Poland since his parents had returned there in 1930. He was a political prisoner for six years in the concentration camps Türkheim, Auschwitz, Riederloh and Burgau. He was liberated in Dachau and returned to Switzerland; here he had problems with the immigration authorities since he did not have a Swiss passport. He was employed as an engineer at the Saurer company in Arbon and was naturalised in 1960.
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- Holocaust--Concentration camps
- 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
