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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. 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…
3. Simon Fuks collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0131 | RG Number: RG-02.147
Date:
1941-1993
…; activities undertaken by the Union gééale des Israéites de France; conditions inside the camps of Drancy and Rivesaltes; and his escape to Switzerland. The…
4. 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…
5. 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.…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Photograph album depicting refugee children in post-war Switzerland
Document | Accession Number: 2015.381.6
Date:
circa 1945-circa 1947
…Photograph album depicting refugee children in post-war Switzerland…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. Jüdischer Flüchtlingsverband in der Schweiz / Union Jüdischer Flüchtlinge in der Schweiz
Document | Accession Number: 2010.335 | RG Number: RG-58.007
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1948
Alternate Title:
Jewish Refugee Alliance in Switzerland / Union of Jewish Refugees in Switzerland
…Jewish Refugee Alliance in Switzerland / Union of Jewish Refugees in Switzerland…
13. 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…
14. Siegfried Abraham collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.411
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1955
… which they were taken first to Switzerland, and then to Algeria. Includes copies of travel documents, family photographs, identity documentation as…
15. One-sheet poster for the film “The Last Chance” (1945)
2018.590.147 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.147
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1945 May 26
…One-sheet poster for the film, “The Last Chance,” released in the United States in February 1945. The film was originally released in Switzerland…
16. 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…
17. Max Shattner photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.245.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1972
…Switzerland--Emigration and immigration.…
18. 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…
19. 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…
20. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
… became Chancellor of Germany, and the Nazi regime passed legislation to disenfranchise the Jewish population. Julius made his way to Switzerland as a…