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1. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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:
Save Their Stories
… 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. 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. Kurt Bigler deportation, internment, and escape
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0156 | RG Number: RG-02.098
Date:
undated: 
… 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…
6. Fragments of a childhood and youth
Document | RG Number: RG-02.211
Date:
1995
Subtitle:
autobiographical memories
…Werner Jacob Lipton (Liebschüz) left Germany in 1939 for Switzerland where he lived in Kinderheime (children's homes).…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. From Antwerp to Geneva via Récébédou and Casseneuil: memoirs of the years 1940-1942
1997.A.0128 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0128
Date:
creation: 1997-1997
… later Casseneuil, his father's deportation from Casseneuil to Drancy and eventually to Auschwitz, and the author's escape to Switzerland, where he was…
10. "As I Recall"
Document | Accession Number: 2015.190.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2008
… train to a town near the Swiss border and crossed the frontier on foot by following the train tracks. Once in Switzerland, he was sent to the Kinderheim…
11. Kurt Moser diary
2008.57.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 47
Document | Accession Number: 2008.57.1
Date:
1943
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Lefort (1924-1989), fled to Switzerland in 1943 and joined her mother in California in 1948. Ernst Moser drowned in 1941 en route to Canada.…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. "Growing Up in Nazi Germany"
Document | Accession Number: 2009.406.1
…, wartime, and post-war life, including being arrested in Vienna. She managed to escape to Switzerland and then emigrated to Australia before arriving in the…
16. 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…
17. "Surviving the Holocaust with Chutzpah"
Document | Accession Number: 2011.325.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2006
… escape the camp and volunteered for labor in Germany, posing as a non-Jew. He was arrested after trying to escape into Switzerland and was imprisoned in…
18. 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
19. 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…
20. 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…