Metadata: Pollak Viktor
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze
- Postal address:
- Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00
- Phone number:
- 00420222749111
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/
- Email:
- office@jewishmuseum.cz
- Reference number:
- 329
- Title:
- Pollak Viktor
- Title (official language):
- Pollak Viktor
- Creator/accumulator:
- Viktor Pollak
- Date(s):
- 1931/2010
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Extent:
- 0.11 linear metres
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains mainly personal documents and other biographical material as well as specialist material that documents the academic career of Prof. Viktor Pollak.
- Archival history:
- The material was donated to the Jewish Museum in Prague by Viktor Pollak's widow in 2009.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Viktor Pollak was born in Vienna on 17 March 1917. After the early death of his parents, he was brought up by an uncle in Postoloprty, a town in northern Bohemia. He attended the German Technical University in Prague, but had to interrupt his studies there. In 1942 he was deported to the Terezín ghetto. After the war he completed his studies at the Czech Technical University in Prague and also studied medicine. His specialisation was medical electronics. In 1968, after two years in Denmark, he emigrated with his wife to Canada. For most of his life he was active as a scientist in the field of electrical engineering and medical technology at the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Canada). He received his PhD in 1972, was awarded a DSc. ten years later and became a professor emeritus in 1984. He held academic positions in various countries in Europe, South America and Asia. He is the author of a number of scientific studies in his field. He died on 29 March 1999.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Pollak, Viktor
- Finding aids:
- Hanková M: Viktor Pollak (1917-1999), Inventář, 2014, 7 s., AP č. 335
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.