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1. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
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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. Bernhard Wiesenfeld papers
2015.602.1 Box 3 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.602.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-circa 2015
bulk: 1913-1946
…, Switzerland, and the United States. There is also correspondence The papers regarding Wiesenfeld’s engineering career include correspondence regarding his…
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 … information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org 3 from his travels in Austria, Croatia, Turkey, Montenegro, France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland…
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3. Ullman family papers
2017.654.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.654.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
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 …, Netherlands and Paris, circa 1932-circa 1933 (2 folders) BE 1 2.27 Grey album with drawing of children, Amsterdam and Switzerland, 1933-1934 (2 folders) OS 3…
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4. John Rothschild memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2011.359.1
Date:
creation: 2011
…Consists of one memoir, 4 pages, written by John J. Rothschild, originally of Zurich, Switzerland. In his memoir, Mr. Rothschild, who moved to France…
5. Nachlass August Bohny-Reiter (1919-2016)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.96.1 | RG Number: RG-58.050
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2016
Alternate Title:
August Bohny-Reiter papers
…August Bohny-Reiter (1919-2016) was born in Switzerland, educated to be a primary school teacher, and then served in the Swiss military. In the…
6. Nachlass Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.94.1 | RG Number: RG-58.048
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2011
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Hugo Schriesheimer papers
…Hugo Schriesheimer (1908-1989) was a Holocaust survivor and Zionist from Konstanz, Germany who fled to Switzerland and emigrated after the war to the…
7. Ernest Bergman philatelic and document collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.194.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2012
… mandated the separation of Jews and non-Jews. The increasing pressures led Ernst to immigrate in 1936 to St. Gallen, Switzerland, where he lived with Julia…
8. Nachlass Elsbeth Kasses (1910-1992)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.92.1 | RG Number: RG-58.046
Date:
inclusive: 2011
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Elsbeth Kasses papers
…Elsbeth Kasser (1910-1992) a nurse and refugee aid worker, was born in Niederscherli, Switzerland, the daughter of Friedrich, a pastor, and Anna (née…
9. Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.45.1 | RG Number: RG-58.036
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2011
Alternate Title:
Kurt Bigler papers
… escaped to Switzerland; in 1943-1945 Bigler stayed in the refugee and labor camps (including Davesco). In 1948-1953 he studied (German, History, and Art…
10. "Refugees and Rescuers in Fascist and Post War Italy (1933-1946)"
Document | Accession Number: 2013.188.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2013-2013
… to safety in Switzerland, where they reconstructed DELASEM as a section of the Swiss Committee for Jewish Refugees. After the war, Grosser briefly…
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. Carl Lutz commemorative material
Document | Accession Number: 2014.387.1
Date:
inclusive: 1999-2014
…Charles (Carl) Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss vice-consul in Budapest between 1942 and 1945. Born in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, Lutz moved to the…
13. Gerald Schwab papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.327.25
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2012
… international plumbing supply company with a branch in Basel, Switzerland. Gerald had a sister, Margot, born in 1920. The family was somewhat observant Jews who…
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 … Freiburg, Germany. David Schwab owned a plumbing supply company that required travel to Switzerland. After the boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, the…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
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… immigration to Palestine, as well as later training in Italy, and a period spent in Switzerland and England. In mid-1940, Alfred was arrested in Britain as an…
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 … immigration to Palestine, as well as later training in Italy, and a period spent in Switzerland and England. In mid-1940, Alfred was arrested in Britain as an…
17. Henny Wenkart papers
2015.578.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2015.578.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-2013
bulk: 1928-1939
… taught philosophy and writing. Of her extended family, her paternal grandmother, Drorah Chaya Wenkart, was able to escape to Switzerland via Italy, where…
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 … grandmother, Drorah Chaya Wenkart, was able to escape to Switzerland via Italy, where she took refuge in a convent during the war, and after the war joined…
18. Nass family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.464.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2018
bulk: 1931-1944
… and her husband Siegfried Sternberg and their two children survived the Holocaust in Switzerland and immigrated to the United States in April 1946. Max…
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 … their two children survived the Holocaust in Switzerland and immigrated to the United States in April 1946. Max’s parents lived in Regensburg during the…
19. Goldfeld and Rauchbach families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.283.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2019
… in 1936 to study medicine. He went to Bern, Switzerland in 1938 to flee antisemitic laws aimed at Jewish students, but returned in 1939 after his visa…
20. Heinz Praeger papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0187.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-2018
bulk: 1939-1947
… was a Communist, left for Switzerland in 1933, and from there, moved to Argentina. In 1936, after Karl Heinz was fired from the bank, he moved to…
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 … accountant and worked at a large bank in Berlin. After the Nazis took power in Germany, Armin Praeger, who was a Communist, left for Switzerland in 1933, and…