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1. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
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…) 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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2. Ruth Rappaport papers
2012.431.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2012.431.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1969
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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
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… 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
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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. 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…
7. 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
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. Eva Rindner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.645.1
Date:
inclusive: 1895-circa 2004
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… 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…
11. 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…
12. Kann family papers
2013.478.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2013.478.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1980
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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…
13. 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…
14. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
2017.101.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2017.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1995
bulk: 1913-1949
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… 1942, his family was deported to Theresienstadt. One of his sisters went to France and then Switzerland. While in Theresienstadt, William was a forced…
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 … Theresienstadt. One of his sisters went to France and then Switzerland. While in Theresienstadt, William was a forced-laborer making suits, and he and his brother…
15. Albersheim family papers
2007.18.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.18.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2003
…, and met and fell in love with Susanne Elizabeth Wagen (d. 1974), a non-Jewish woman from Switzerland. The couple returned to Switzerland to be married…
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 … business in Barcelona, and met and fell in love with Susanne Elizabeth Wagen (d. 1974), a non-Jewish woman from Switzerland. The couple returned to…
16. Albert Rosenberg papers
1995.A.0606 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0606
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1983
bulk: 1945
… urban renewal expert in Austria and Belgium and was part of a United Nations Economic Council in Switzerland. In 1980, Albert took a position at the…
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 ….S. government as an urban renewal expert in Austria and Belgium and was part of a United Nations Economic Council in Switzerland. In 1980, Albert took a position…
17. Ben Zion Kalb papers
2014.406.2 Book Enclosure 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.406.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1968
bulk: 1942-1945
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… through funds sent to international Jewish organizations in Switzerland. Though Ben Zion mainly rescued children, he is also credited with rescuing Rabbi…
18. Fred Lifschutz papers
2015.541. 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.541.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1975
… with his grandmother and aunt in New York City. To avoid arrest in Vienna, Morris attempted to escape to Switzerland, but was caught and sent back. He…
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 … New York City. To avoid arrest in Vienna, Morris attempted to escape to Switzerland, but was caught and sent back. He was unable to obtain a visa for…
19. Abendstern, Fleischmann, and Meyerhoff families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.494.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
… Germans, Henriette Meyerhoff was sent to Switzerland as a resettlement volunteer and spent the remaining war years there. After the war, she immigrated to…
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 …. Max Meyerhoff died there of starvation. In a deal with the Germans, Henriette Meyerhoff was sent to Switzerland as a resettlement volunteer and spent…
20. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
… accompanied his mother during her move from New York to a retirement home in Basel, Switzerland in 1964. During that trip, Ernest reunited with his brother for…