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1. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…) 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. 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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3. 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).…
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:
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…
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. "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…
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. 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…
10. 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…