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1. Kövesdi family films featuring post-war life in Hungary 1948 - 1977, with other filming locations in Croatia, Bulgaria, and Switzerland.
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Film | Accession Number: 2022.46.1 | RG Number: RG-60.7282 | Film ID: 4757
Film Title:
Kövesdi family films
Date:
creation: 1948-1977
Duration:
01:08:03
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Kövesdi family films featuring post-war life in Hungary 1948 - 1977, with other filming locations in Croatia, Bulgaria, and Switzerland.…
2. Eva Weinberger Cohen collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.182.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1950
…. Eva remained in the concentration camp for five months before being released to neutral Switzerland. Eva arrived in Switzerland on December 7, 1944 and…
3. 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…
4. 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
5. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
… passport (schutzpass) that would enable her to immigrate to Switzerland and serve as a protective document. She was also able to get refuge in the Glass…
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 … would enable her to immigrate to Switzerland and serve as a protective document. She was also able to get refuge in the Glass House which sheltered around…
6. Rezső Rudolf Kasztner collection
2017.526.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 59
Document | Accession Number: 2017.526.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-2015
bulk: 1944-1979
… the SS, for the release a group of 1,685 Jews to Switzerland in exchange for money. After the war, Kasztner moved to Israel and became a spokesman for…
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 … group of 1,685 Jews to Switzerland, in exchange for money. After the war, Kasztner moved to Israel, where he became a spokesman for the Ministry of Trade…
7. Haladás [Newspapers]
Document | Accession Number: 2021.9.1 | RG Number: RG-25.108
Date:
Issued: 1945-1950
Alternate Title:
"Progress"
… of the *Kasztner Group, he was dispatched to Switzerland from Bergen-Belsen. After the war, Zsolt returned to Hungary, where he founded the radical…
8. Records relating to the investigation of Giorgio Perlasca by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Document | Accession Number: 1991.016 | RG Number: RG-20.004.01
Date:
1944-1990
…, Portugal and Switzerland, to shelter and save Jews from deportation. Upon the liberation of by the Soviet Red Army in February 1945, Perlasca returned to…
9. Steven Vogel papers
2002.175.5 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 29
Document | Accession Number: 2002.175.5
Date:
inclusive: circa 1859-2009
bulk: 1940-1958
… Switzerland. Steven hid on a Red Cross Caravan, and then boarded a transport train for French troops heading there. Once in Switzerland, he met up with one of…
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 … Switzerland. He immigrated to the United States in October 1945 and settled in New York. He married Gloria Jean Fox in 1954. Scope and content of collection The…
10. UNRRA selected records AG-018-023 : Hungary Mission
Document | Accession Number: 2019.40.1 | RG Number: RG-67.075
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1949
…, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Trieste; 12 procurement offices in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and later Peru, Cuba, India, Mexico…
11. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… visit them as well as her grandfather. Mina attended the University of Basel in Switzerland. During 1933, Hitler and the Nazi Party established a…
12. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
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… six months they were taken to Switzerland by Nazi transport, first to a Red Cross hotel near Montreux, and then to a children’s home in Heiden. Manny…
13. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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  • File 1: Diaries December 23, 1941-June 2, 1942, June 2, 1942-January 13, 1943, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 2: Diaries January 14, 1943-May 26, 1943, May 27, 1943-October 13, 1943, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 3: Diaries October 14, 1943-January 23, 1944, January 23, 1944-March 31, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 4: Diaries March 31, 1944-May 25, 1944, May 25, 1944-July 3, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 5: Diaries July 3, 1944-August 19, 1944, August 20, 1944-September 13, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 6: Diaries September 13, 1944-October 8, 1944, October 9, 1944-November 10, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 7: Diaries November 11, 1944-January 11, 1945, January 11, 1945-March 11, 1945, includes loose material from diaries
  • File 8: Diaries March 11, 1945-June 20, 1945, June 25, 1945-November 5, 1945, Includes loose material from diaries
14. Records related to Hungarian Jewish communities
Document | Accession Number: 2007.241 | RG Number: RG-39.013M
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1956
Alternate Title:
Levéltári gyűjtemények Magyar Országos Levéltárból átkerült iratok Joint Magyarországi Képviselete iratai
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 … compiled by the Rescue Department of the World Jewish Congress (probably 1945-1946): list of those, who reached Switzerland in December 1944; list of those…
15. Schultz and Bodnar families papers
2017.336.1 Box 4 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.336.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2015
bulk: 1916-1954
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 …. Bodnar, Eugene, 1883-1968. Bodnar, Katherine, 1888-1952. Bodnar, György, 1913-2005. Corporate Name: Switzerland. Botschaft (Hungary) Topical Term: Jewish…
16. Randolph Braham collection
Document | RG Number: RG-52.000
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2011
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 … of Rabbi Alexandre Safran, Chief Rabbi of Geneva, Switzerland, (“Safran Case”), 1995-2006 52.003.05*07 10.8 “Court records,” 1945 52.003.05*08 10…
17. Postwar portrait of Dorottya (Dolly) and her twin sister, Ida Marianne (Mari) Dezsoefi.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 03976
Date:
1946
… for Switzerland. There is met her fiancé, Janos Fenjves and married him on May 8, 1948 in Paris. They left for Venezuela one month later. There they…