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1. Young children wearing uniforms stand in rows in a Zionist children's home in Switzerland.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 70950
Date:
1945 - 1900 January 28
…Young children wearing uniforms stand in rows in a Zionist children's home in Switzerland.…
2. Teenage boys gather around a Zionist flag in a children's home in Switzerland.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 70953
Date:
1945 - 1916
…Teenage boys gather around a Zionist flag in a children's home in Switzerland.…
3. Switzer family papers
2018.392.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2010
bulk: 1914-1955
… in 1943, a contemporary list compiled of the names of Jews who left Aprica in 1943 to seek asylum in Switzerland, and a small amount of documents…
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 … asylum in Switzerland, and a small amount of documents related to Frieda’s brother John and his wife Margarete Roman. Languages: Croatian, German, English…
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4. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…) arranged for his escape into Switzerland where he remained for the duration of the war. Peter immigrated to the United States in July 1946 with the aid of…
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 …, and schools in Condom (Gers), Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (Haute-Loire) and Figeac (Lot), his teachers and classmates there, his escape to Switzerland…
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5. Ursula Klau papers
2006.410.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2006.410.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1867-2006
…). Her older sister was Helga Simon (1921-1998). In 1934 the family fled to Switzerland. They returned to Germany in 1935 so that Dr. Klau could liquidate…
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 … so- called “Lost Transport”; and Ursula’s liberation and recuperation in Davos, Switzerland, immigration to the United States, and efforts to liquidate…
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6. Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Bernie (Sygn.495)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.72.1 | RG Number: RG-15.525
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1945
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Diplomatic Legation in Bern
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Poland. Poselstwo (Switzerland)…
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 … (Switzerland) Accession Number: 2016.72.1 Record Group Number: RG-15.525 Extent: 16,076 digital images: PDF (5.68 GB) Repository: United States Holocaust…
7. Kahn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.613.2
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1979
bulk: 1939-1947
… sell his house. In early 1938 they applied for visas to Switzerland, but were not successful in obtaining them. During Kristallnacht, the family…
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 …, France, and Switzerland during the Holocaust. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written to Ruth Kahn in Switzerland from her parents Leo and…
8. Nachlass Luise Wetter (1917-1991)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.89.1 | RG Number: RG-58.043
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1991
Alternate Title:
Luise Wetter papers
…Luise Wetter (1917-1991) was a teacher and aid worker in Switzerland for refugee children during and after the war..…
9. Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Zürichu (Sygn.496)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.73.1 | RG Number: RG-15.526
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1945
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Honorary Consulate in Zürich
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Poland. Konsulat Honorowy (Zürich, Switzerland)…
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 …: Poland. Konsulat Honorowy (Zürich, Switzerland) Accession Number: 2016.73.1 Record Group Number: RG-15.526 Extent: 256 digital images: PDF (117 MB…
10. Leo Yeni papers
2012.483.1 Book Enclosure 5 Image 37
Document | Accession Number: 2012.483.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2010
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… and his family fled north to the mountains near Varese, close to the Swiss border. His family decided that Leo should escape into Switzerland. He was…
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 …, diaries, writings, photographs, and printed materials documenting Leo Yeni from Milan, his escape into Switzerland during the Holocaust, his detention in…
11. Nachlass Erich A. Hausmann
Document | Accession Number: 2012.286 | RG Number: RG-58.026
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2000
Alternate Title:
Personal papers of Erich A. Hausmann
… Frankfurt to Switzerland of Jewish children in coordination with the Schweizerisches Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder (SHEK). Starting in January 1939 he was…
12. Nachlass Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.94.1 | RG Number: RG-58.048
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2011
Alternate Title:
Hugo Schriesheimer papers
…Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989) was a Holocaust survivor and Zionist from Konstanz, Germany who fled to Switzerland and emigrated after the war to the…
13. Schwarzhaupt family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.277.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1945
… Switzerland under the auspices of the "Schweizer Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder", an organization founded by Swiss Jewish women. Max and Ruth, wearing nametags…
14. Egon Feldmann collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1945
… country. The father of his girlfriend, Else, agreed to obtain a forged papers for him on condition that he marry his daughter. Egon left for Switzerland in…
15. Nicole Denier Long papers
2018.128.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-circa 2000
bulk: 1918-1948
… French government selected Nicole to help care for concentration camp survivors in Switzerland. Nicole worked in Geneva, Saint Martin and Davos for six…
16. Nachlass Dr. iur. Georges Brunschvig (1908-1973)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.88.1 | RG Number: RG-58.042
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2005
Alternate Title:
Georges Brunschvig papers
…Source of acquisition is the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland; Archival signature: NL…
17. Nachlass Jean Nordmann (1908-1986)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.97.1 | RG Number: RG-58.039
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2001
Alternate Title:
Jean Nordmann papers
…Source of acquisition is the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland; Archival signature: NL Jean…
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 ….a. betr. "Pilori" vom 25.10.1935 - Racines, Festschrift für Jean Nordmann, Genf 1978 Enthält auch: J. Alfred Meyer: Lecture on Switzerland, Nr. 508, Zürich…
18. Nachlass Ruth von Wild (1912-1983)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.90.1 | RG Number: RG-58.044
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1982
Alternate Title:
Ruth von Wild papers
…. 1938 returned to Barcelona and worked for Switzerland Working Group for Spain children Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Spanienkinder (Ayuda Suiza, SAS). In 1939…
19. Nachlass Prof. Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.240.1 | RG Number: RG-58.052
Date:
inclusive: 1904-2009
Alternate Title:
Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich papers
…Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (March 27, 1921-October 21, 2007) was a Swiss Jewish religious philosopher. Ehrlich fled Nazi Germany for Switzerland in June…
20. Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.45.1 | RG Number: RG-58.036
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2011
Alternate Title:
Kurt Bigler papers
… escaped to Switzerland; in 1943-1945 Bigler stayed in the refugee and labor camps (including Davesco). In 1948-1953 he studied (German, History, and Art…