Metadata: USHMM Margot Wicki Schwarzschild Collection – Estate Margot Wicki-Schwarzschild
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:
- USHMM Margot Wicki Schwarzschild Collection
- Title:
- USHMM Margot Wicki Schwarzschild Collection – Estate Margot Wicki-Schwarzschild
- Title (official language):
- USHMM Margot Wicki Schwarzschild Collection – Nachlass Margot Wicki-Schwarzschild
- Creator/accumulator:
- Wicki-Schwarzschild, Margot
- Date(s):
- 1940/1971
- Language:
- German
- French
- English
- Extent:
- 1 CD-ROM
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Photographic images
- Audio
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains photos, biographical sketch, interviews, documents of the Rivesaltes internment camp, correspondence, drawings and newspaper articles.
- Archival history:
-
Margot Wicki-Schwarzschild donated her estate to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in 2005. As part of the cooperation between the AfZ (Archives of Contemporary History) and the USHMM, the AfZ received a digital version of the document in 2011 with the consent of Margot Wicki-Schwarzschild.
In 2010 and 2011, Margot Wicki-Schwarzschild spoke to a school class on Holocaust Memorial Day about her experiences during the Second World War. These interviews are documented in the AfZ.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Margot Wicki-Schwarzschild was born in Kaiserslautern in 1931 as the daughter of Richard Schwarzschild and Luise Keim. Her Catholic mother converted to Judaism after her marriage. The family was deported to Southern France in October 1940 with other Baden and Saarland Jews. They were interned in Gurs and Rivesaltes between October 1940 and March 1941. From November 1941 to May 1942, Margot and Hannelore Schwarzschild stayed in the Pringy children's home. From May to August 1942, the family lived together in Caudebronde and was imprisoned again in August 1942 in Rivesaltes. At the end of August 1942, Richard Schwarzschild was deported via Drancy to Auschwitz where he died. At the end of August 1942, Luise, Hannelore and Margot Schwarzschild were rescued from imminent deportation thanks to the commitment of the Swiss Red Cross nurse Friedel Bohny-Reiter. Hannelore and Margot Schwarzschild stayed in the children's home Pringy from 1942 to 1945, while Luise Schwarzschild lived and worked in Cruseilles. In October 1946, the family returned to Germany. Margot married Josef Wicki in 1955 and from then on lived in the Basel region.
- Subject terms:
- Holocaust
- World War II
- 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
