Metadata: Estate of Nelly Wermus-Kaegi
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 Nelly Wermus-Kaegi
- Title:
- Estate of Nelly Wermus-Kaegi
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Nelly Wermus-Kaegi
- Creator/accumulator:
- Wermus-Kaegi, Nelly
- Date(s):
- 1941/1997
- Language:
- German
- Extent:
- 0.01 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection includes, amongst other items, letters of acknowledgement for Nelly Wermus-Kaegi (Belgian Red Cross and Swiss Coalition for Relief to Child War Victims) and an eyewitness report from the internment camp at Rivesaltes/Banyuls.
- Archival history:
- The collection was transferred to the AfZ (Archives of Contemporary History) in several deliveries between 1997 and 2005.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Nelly Wermus-Kaegi, a nursery nurse, was born in Vallorbe on 21 September 1920 and died on 20 September 1999. She attended schools in Winterthur and in 1938/39 a school for nursery nurses in Geneva. She held various jobs as a nurse in private households and in 1941, after a lecture by Rodolfo Olgiati in Winterthur, joined the "Schweizerisches Hilfswerk für kriegsgeschädigte Kinder" (Swiss Coalition for Relief to Child War Victims), which was later under the direction of the SRC (Swiss Red Cross). She worked in various French camps, including Rivesaltes on the Spanish-French border where catastrophic conditions prevailed. After an interruption due to illness in 1942/1943, she worked again in Geneva at the "Kinderhilfe". In 1946, she married Henri Wermus (see individual holdings of Henri Wermus). As a result, she lost her Swiss citizenship, which she only regained in 1953 after a revision of the law.
- Subject terms:
- Internment
- Refugees
- 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
