Metadata: Estate of Helena and Hans Andreas Weil-Steinsberg
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 Weil-Steinsberg
- Title:
- Estate of Helena and Hans Andreas Weil-Steinsberg
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Helena und Hans Andreas Weil-Steinsberg
- Creator/accumulator:
- Weil-Steinsberg, Helena; Weil, Hans Andreas
- Date(s):
- 1942/2005
- Language:
- German
- English
- Extent:
- 0.1 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains private and official documents such as identity cards and certificates as well as an interview and family correspondence. It also includes graphics from Theresienstadt.
- Archival history:
- Hans Andreas and Helena Weil-Steinsberg brought the material to the AfZ (Archives of Contemporary History) in 2017 and 2018.
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
Helena Weil, née Steinsbergova, was born in Hranice (Moravian Weisskirchen, Czechoslovakia) on 22 February 1948. She was the daughter of Robert Steinsberg and Ilsa Steinsbergova, née Gessler. She was brought to Switzerland by her father to her cousin Trude Fein-Steinsberg in Kilchberg (ZH), where she attended secondary school and trained as a surveyor draughtswoman. In 1972, she married Hans Andreas Weil.
Hans Andreas Weil, an instructor and adult educator, was born in Zurich on 11 September 1944. He was the son of Heinrich (Henri) Weil, a merchant, and Rita Weil, née Moritzson, a nurse. He finished an apprenticeship as electrician and attended the technical school for aircraft electronics where he earned a degree as an avionics engineer (1972). From 1969 to 2009, he worked as an instructor for Swissair and Lufthansa.
- Access points: locations:
- Theresienstadt
- Subject terms:
- Memoirs
- 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
