Metadata: Estate of Albert Vischherr
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 Albert Vischherr
- Title:
- Estate of Albert Vischherr
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Albert Vischherr
- Creator/accumulator:
- Vischherr, Albert
- Date(s):
- 1938/2014
- Language:
- German
- French
- Dutch; Flemish
- Extent:
- 0.04 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains an autobiographical manuscript with photos, documents and correspondence.
- Archival history:
- Albert Vischherr handed over his manuscript to the AfZ (Archives of Contemporary History) in 2014.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Albert Vischherr, a bookseller, social education worker, psychologist and respiratory therapist, was born in Amsterdam on 5 July 1938 as Albert Vischschoonmaker. He was the son of Philip, owner of a fur shop, and Marianna, née Denneboom. In 1972, he married Ruth Ursula Haltiner (later divorced), with whom he had two children. He spent his early childhood in Amsterdam. From 1943, Vischherr was separated from his Jewish family for safety reasons and lived with various families in the Netherlands, including for a few months with the Pastoor family in Treebeek and for a year and a half with the Lucassen family in Merkelbeek. In 1944, his parents were arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Vischherr travelled with a transport of the Red Cross Children's Aid for war-affected children to Switzerland for a three-month holiday in February 1946 where he lived with the Dreyfus-de Gunzburg family in Basel. After several extensions of the holiday, the Dreyfus-de Gunzburg family became the official foster family. Vischherr attended grammar school in Basel between 1949 and 1957. From 1957 to 1960, he trained to become a bookseller in Bern. From 1961 to 1973, he worked in the book trade and publishing industry and stayed in Israel between 1961 and 1963, where he worked in a kibbutz and in the book trade. From 1967 to 1969, he stayed in Paris and worked in development aid (Brittany). From 1973 to 1976, Vischherr trained to become a social pedagogue at the School for Social Work in Zurich. Between 1974 and 1977, he studied part-time to become a psychological consultant at the Alfred Adler Institute in Zurich and from 1977 to 1999, Vischherr worked as a social worker in the youth and family counselling centre in Uster. Between 1990 and 2013, he had his own psychological practice in Uster. From 1994 to 1996, Vischherr trained as a holistic-integrative respiratory therapist at IKP in Zurich.
- Subject terms:
- Memoirs
- 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
