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1. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
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… 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:
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… 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. Grootkerk family papers
2002.22.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.22.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1951
… Grootkerk fled with her brother, Herbert, via Belgium and France to Switzerland, where they survived the war. Jacques and Hedi were reunited in Paris after…
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 … Switzerland via France. The bulk of the collection is comprised of love letters between Jacques and Hedi while they were separated during the war. Languages…
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4. 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…
5. Leo Yeni papers
2012.483.1 Book Enclosure 5 Image 37
Document | Accession Number: 2012.483.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2010
Special Collection:
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… 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…
6. Jüdische Nachrichten: JUNA Geschäftsarchiv und Dokumentation der Pressestelle des SIG
Document | Accession Number: 2012.284 | RG Number: RG-58.024
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1970
Alternate Title:
Jewish News: the JUNA archive and documentation belonging to the press office of the Alliance of Swiss Jewish Communities
…Source of acquisition is the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte (AfZ), Switzerland. The Jüdische Nachrichten…
7. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
…, and a sister Anne, who married Jules Heim and moved to Zurich, Switzerland. Charlotte and Ernst Vendig married on August 17, 1930. Soon after this…
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 …, 1939 voyage aboard the M.S. St. Louis, refuge in Belgium, internment in French concentration camps, refuge in Switzerland, and immigration to the United…
8. Gerda Schild Haas papers
1989.048 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1989.048 | RG Number: RG-02.016
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
… Jewish hospital there, and was deported to Theresienstadt in March 1943. She was liberated as part of an exchange transport to Switzerland in February…
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 … liberated as part of an exchange transport to Switzerland in February 1945 and joined her father in the United States in 1946. Her mother and her sister…
9. 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…
10. 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
11. Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers
2018.38.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.38.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
… were very high. In the fall of 1942 Ellen received word from a friend in Switzerland that they, as well as other loved ones, had been deported. The…
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 …, but their quota numbers were very high. In the fall of 1942 Ellen received word from a friend in Switzerland that they, as well as other loved ones, had…
12. Eva Rindner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.645.1
Date:
inclusive: 1895-circa 2004
undated: 
… Switzerland. She learned to walk with the aid of braces in July 1935, and returned home to her family in Vienna in 1936. Her father died unexpectedly of a heart…
13. Camillo Adler papers
2009.403.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2009.403.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… 22 June 1941. Facing increased persecution, the family fled to Switzerland in November 1942. Paul and Michel were initially separated from the parents…
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 … Lyon into Switzerland, and life in Swiss refugee and labor camps. The translations were completed by Adler's son, Michel, in 2009 and 2010. The accretion…
14. Emil Schattner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.129.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2005
…. Nuchim traveled to Zurich, Switzerland to obtain visas and the rest of the family soon joined him there. Prior to their emigration from Europe, the family…
15. Kann family papers
2013.478.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2013.478.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1980
Special Collection:
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… Silver), her parents, Edmund and Friedel Klaber Kann, and her sister, Edith (later Roth) in Germany and France before the war, in France and Switzerland…
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 …. Indexing terms Kann, Edmond. Kann, Friederike. Kann, Edith. Kann, Renée. Gurs (Concentration camp) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish refugee--Switzerland…
16. Dolf and Cato Ringel papers
1993.123.10 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1993.123.10
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1989
… escape to Switzerland, but were stopped and forced to return to Amsterdam. As Jewish roundups became more common, Max and Dolf moved into the attic of…
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 … two attempted to escape to Switzerland, but were stopped and forced to return to Amsterdam. As Jewish roundups became more common, Max and Dolf moved…
17. Henry Landman papers
1997.A.0175.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0175.1 | RG Number: RG-10.476
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1992
bulk: 1935-1945
… and to receive restitution for Holocaust losses and assets held in Switzerland.…
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 … in Germany and to receive restitution for Holocaust losses and assets held in Switzerland. System of arrangement The Henry Landman papers are arranged…
18. Piera and Meyer Solender papers
1993.127 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1993.127
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1980
… of the war in Switzerland. Piera, her sister Nilda, and their mother traveled south and were sheltered by Gigi Corleone near Senigallia. They…
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 … their father survived the rest of the war in Switzerland. Piera, her sister Nilda, and their mother traveled south and were sheltered by Gigi Corleone…
19. Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee
1996.A.0120 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0120
Date:
creation: 1946
… 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…
20. 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…