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1. 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…
2. Hillel Storch papers
2017.526.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.526.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1985
… Germany to enter Switzerland, and that the Germans would consider releasing more. Heinrich Himmler's personal physician, Felix Kersten, sent an invitation…
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 … Schellenberg about the “White Buses” operation transferring 1200 Jews from Theresienstadt to Switzerland and Sweden. Languages: Swedish, German, English, Russian…
3. 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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4. Dr. Louis Rene Beres collection
Document | Accession Number: 2007.450.1
Date:
1938-1947
…Sigismund and Margaret Beres were Austrian Jewish citizens who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 to Switzerland, where they remained throughout…
5. Rudolf Weiss collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.351.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1945
… family and friends; documentation regarding emigration to Switzerland and to Honduras; documentation regarding his pre-war life in Milan, Italy.…
6. 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…
7. Julius Kühl collection
1988.003 Box 6 Folder 23 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.003 | RG Number: RG-27.001
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1982
…Dr. Julius Kühl (Juliusz, Yehiel, 1913-1985) was born in Sanok, Poland (Galicia at the time). He moved to Switzerland and studied economics and the…
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 … the time). He moved to Switzerland and studied economics and the University of Zurich. At the outbreak of World War II he received a position at the…
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8. 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…
9. 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…
10. Max Shattner photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.245.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1972
…Switzerland--Emigration and immigration.…
11. Claude Zaidenband papers
2014.239.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2014.239.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1950
… that Mathilde and Claude were Jewish. They remained there for two years. Claude’s sister and brothers were sent to Switzerland by the OSE (Oeuvre de…
12. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Jewish aid organizations had raised enough money to ransom the prisoners. After a few days, they were taken to Caux sur…
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 … aboard the rescue train organized by Rezső Kasztner, internment at Bergen-Belsen, transfer to Switzerland, and immigration to the United States. Languages…
13. 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…
14. 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
15. 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…
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. Kibel and Pollaczek families collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.246.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1970
… to the Opole Lubelskie ghetto in Poland. They perished in the Holocaust. In May 1938, Otto and Judith Kibel immigrated to Switzerland and settled in…
18. Bund Schweizerischer Jüdischer Frauenorganisationen (BSJF) (gegr. 1924) Historisches Archiv
Document | Accession Number: 2012.282 | RG Number: RG-58.022
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1999
Alternate Title:
Historical Archive of the Alliance of Swiss Jewish Women's Organisations (BSJF)
… organisation for 7 Jewish women's associations in Switzerland. The Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) and Emunah joined BSJF later on. Its goal…
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 ….1.2001 - The 80th Birthday of Switzerland's Jewish Women's Organization, in: ICJW Newsletter, Sept. 2004 262 Diverse Themen 1943 - 2001 Enthält u. a…
19. 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…
20. 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…