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1. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Figeac (Lot). In May 1944, the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) arranged for his escape into Switzerland. He immigrated to the United States in July…
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 …‐Lignon (Haute‐Loire) and Figeac (Lot), his teachers and classmates there, his escape to Switzerland, immigration to the United States, memorials to the…
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2. Ruth Rappaport papers
2012.431.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2012.431.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1969
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… saw, and soon after, the family left for Switzerland. After a short stay, Mendel and Helene decided to return home. Ruth did not want to return to…
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 … Kristallnacht pogrom. Ruth told her parents what she saw, and soon after, the family left for Switzerland. After a short stay, Mendel and Helene decided to return…
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3. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 …-1909 BE 2 Scrapbook photo album of a trip to Switzerland [probably Anita’s], ca. 1938 1.5 Day calendars, January-June 1937 1.6 Day calendars, July…
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4. 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…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. Razdowitz and Lehr families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.31.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2001
bulk: 1934-1949
… reunited in Marseille. By December 1942 the extended family had fled France for Switzerland. They were interned in a refugee camp in Saint Cergue from spring…
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 … Holocaust in France and Switzerland, and immigration to the United States in 1946. The collection primarily consists of biographical materials and photographs…
9. Bierzonski family papers
2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Zwartberg. They spent several months in the camp before escaping to Lyon, France and going into hiding. Bronia decided to send Gerda to Switzerland where she…
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 … Viktor, a diary kept by Gerda while attending a Jewish boarding school in Switzerland in 1944, immigration papers relating to the family’s attempts to flee…
10. Nachlass Konsul Carl Lutz (1895-1975)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.95.1 | RG Number: RG-58.049
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1988
Alternate Title:
Carl Lutz papers
…Charles (Carl) Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss vice-consul in Budapest between 1942 and 1945. Born in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, Lutz moved to the…
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 …, Bregenz, s.l. (t.p.q. 1954), TS, 2 S. - Kurzer Lebenslauf von Carl Lutz, Generalkonsul, Bern 1971, TS, 3 S. 2 Eintrag im "Who's who in Switzerland", Kopie…
11. Nachlass Dr. iur. Rolf Henne (1901-1966)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.93.1 | RG Number: RG-58.047
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1966
Alternate Title:
Rolf Henne papers
… joined Max Leo Keller in the founding of the even more fascistic organization the Nationale Bewegung der Schweiz (NBS) [National Movement of Switzerland…
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 ….d., TS, 3 S. - [Henne, Rolf:] The National Front in Switzerland, s.l., s.d., TS, 2 S. - Edwardes, Frederick: The National Front, in: British Union of…
12. Nachlass Pfarrer Paul Vogt (1900-1984)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.86.1 | RG Number: RG-58.040
Date:
inclusive: 1882-2000
Alternate Title:
Pastor Paul Vogt papers
…Paul Vogt (1900-1984) was an evangelical pastor in Switzerland. Paul Vogt was the son of a parishioner who had emigrated from Silesia. After…
13. Eichengrün and Stern families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.627.15
Date:
inclusive: 1872-2005
bulk: 1936-1956
… 1936 they sent their three oldest children to Switzerland to attend a Jewish school while they prepared to emigrate from Germany. The night before they…
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 … from Switzerland, and their son Walter’s death while serving with the United States Army. The papers also include material regarding Fritz and Hedi…
14. Levinson and Stern family papers
2015.606.1 Box 2 Folder 39 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.606.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1995
bulk: 1875-1958
…, Switzerland from 1952-1957, and later settled in Middletown, New York where he opened a gynecology and obstetrics practice. They have three daughters, Elise (b…
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 … married Ann Kaufman in 1952. He studied medicine in Basel, Switzerland from 1952-1957, and later settled in Middletown, New York where he opened a…
15. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… his parents and as a soldier with the Polish Second Corps and scenes from the Middle East and Egypt. Postcards from Italy, Switzerland, France, and…
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 … scenes from the Middle East and Egypt. Postcards from Italy, Switzerland, France, and Wales exchange postwar messages among Hartry and his friends. Printed…
16. Richard and Ernestine Benes papers
1998.A.0162.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0162.2
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1942
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… flee to Switzerland, but were denied. He continued his attempts to obtain visas and in 1940 he was successful. They fled from Austria to Spain through…
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 … attempted to obtain visas to the United States, but was unsuccessful. Shortly after they were married, they attempted to flee to Switzerland, but were denied…
17. Fonds Joseph Gottfarstein (MDXL)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.22.1 | RG Number: RG-43.162
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1970
… of Jewish communities in Paris; he was also a lecturer in the people’s university. During the German occupation of France, he escaped to Switzerland…
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 … in the people’s university. During the German occupation of France, he escaped to Switzerland. He began writing poems in Vispe (Islet) in Kaunas (1922…
18. Nachlass Avner W. Less papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.214 | RG Number: RG-58.010
Date:
inclusive: 1902-2007
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… 1961 to 1961 the police captain Avner Less interrogates Adolf Eichmann in preparation for his trial in Jerusalem. In 1968 Less moves to Switzerland where…
19. Wellisch and Auerbach families papers
2018.646.1 Box 2 Folder 27 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.646.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1961
… transit visas and, on July 30th, Kurt, Frieda, and his brother Heinz fled Vienna and traveled to Switzerland via Italy, arriving in Zurich on September 22…
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 … and transit visas and, on July 30th, Kurt, Frieda, and his brother Heinz fled Vienna and traveled to Switzerland via Italy, arriving in Zurich on…
20. Burger family collection
2013.191.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 89
Document | Accession Number: 2013.191.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-1976
…, stopping briefly in Zurich, Switzerland and Denmark before being held in the Merksplas internment camp in Belgium. He immigrated to the United States in…