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1. Eva and Jack Lewin family papers
2000.550.5 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.550.5
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1999
…. In 1941 Jack went into hiding in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France and later obtained false papers to enter Switzerland. Jack immigrated to the United…
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 … into hiding in Le Chambon-sur- Lignon, France and later obtained false papers to enter Switzerland. Jack immigrated to the United States in 1946 where he…
2. Benno Rothenberg family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.12
Date:
creation: 1938-1941
…Switzerland.…
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 …, and Marion Rothenberg in Munich, Germany, September 1938. The passport contains various visas for Germany, Holland France, Belgium, Switzerland, and the…
3. Nachlass Albert Mülli (1916-1997) NL
Document | Accession Number: 2010.321 | RG Number: RG-58.005
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1997
Alternate Title:
Estate of Albert Mülli
…Source of acquisition is the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland; The signature: NL Albert…
4. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
…Switzerland.…
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 …--Poland--Łódź. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Austria Czechoslovakia France Germany Hungary Italy Latvia Luxembourg Netherlands Poland Switzerland…
5. Agudat Yisrael collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.270.8
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
…Switzerland.…
6. U.S. re-release advertisement for the film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin" (1939)
2018.590.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.9
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1939 October 29
…Switzerland.…
7. Charles Weingarten papers
2002.420.26 Box 10 Folder 6 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2002.420.26
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2009
… Matteudi family. Rudolf escaped to Switzerland. Glika was given a hiding place in the convent of the Sisters of the Poor in Nice. Margarethe made canvas…
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 … recuperated in children’s homes in Switzerland after the war. His grandmother survived the war hidden in the convent of the Sisters of the Poor in Nice, and his…
8. Scene still from the film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin" (1939)
2018.590.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.10
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1939 October 29
…Switzerland.…
9. Edith Stein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.347.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1985
undated: 
… a refugee camp in Altstätten, Switzerland. Edith and Gisela were sent to separately live with foster families in Gossau, Switzerland. Edith lived with…
10. 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…
11. Schulz family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.184.1
Date:
approximately 1924-1952
… to Switzerland in 1939 as well as identification cards, passports, and correspondence documenting the Schulz family in Altona [Hamburg], Germany and…
12. U.S. Pressbook for the film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin" (1939)
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.8
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1939 October 29
…Switzerland.…
13. Norbert Bikales photographs
2000.247 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.247
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
… Switzerland, and Norbert was not given permission to enter Austria, so the two brothers met on the border. Norbert learned that his parents had perished in…
14. Salomon family papers
1998.A.0222 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0222
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
…Switzerland.…
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 … in Switzerland, and post-war correspondence acknowledging their survival. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is…
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. Myron and Dottie Miller collection
2013.39.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.39.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1948
… Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Palestine, and Switzerland.…
17. Merei family papers
2015.571.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.571.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1991
… his parents remained in the camp until December 3, 1944, when they were released on a second transport to Switzerland. They arrived in St. Gallen, and…
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 …‐Belsen concentration camp and their eventual release to Switzerland; and their immigration to the United States in 1946. Included are biographical…
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  • Series 3: Series 3: Photographs, circa 1900-circa 1987
    • File 7: Merei family, 1940-1946
      • Pages: 5
    • File 8: Merei, John: 1941-1946
      • Pages: 1
18. 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…
19. Ruth Engelhardt Spivack Meyers papers
2017.311.1 Box 2 Folder 5 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2017.311.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2015
… September 1943, Helene was released from Gurs and went to Le Chambon before going to Switzerland where she stayed until the end of the war. Helene immigrated…
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 …, Helene was released from Gurs and went to Le Chambon before going to Switzerland where she stayed until the end of the war. Helene immigrated to the United…
20. Schmarak and Bieler family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0294
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1943
… Bieler families in Switzerland and Poland during World War II.…