Metadata: Estate of Claus Albert Wertheim
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 Claus Albert Wertheim
- Title:
- Estate of Claus Albert Wertheim
- Title (official language):
- Einzelbestand Claus Albert Wertheim
- Creator/accumulator:
- Wertheim, Claus Albert
- Date(s):
- 1999
- Language:
- German
- English
- Extent:
- 0.01 shelf metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains the memoir ‘The Past is indestructible. My childhood memoirs including a history of the Wertheim Family’ by Claus Albert Wertheim. Among other things it deals with his stay as a refugee child in Switzerland in 1939/40.
- Archival history:
- The collection was brought to the AfZ (Archives of Contemporary History) through the mediation of the SIG and Paul Biedermann in 1999.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Claus Albert Wertheim was born in Berlin on 22 June 1927 as the son of Erich Wertheim (born 1888 in Stralsund) and Anna Wertheim, née Zimm (born 1894). From 1931 to 1938, the family resided in Cologne. After travel plans for Shanghai had fallen through, an affidavit provider was found in the USA. For the period until his final departure for America, Claus Albert Wertheim was sent to Jewish foster parents, Alice and Ernst Biederman of Winterthur, where he attended secondary school. His parents arrived in Switzerland in 1940; subsequently the family travelled to New York. In 1999, Claus Albert Wertheim resided in Saratoga (Florida).
- Access points: locations:
- Switzerland
- 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