Category:Holocaust Refugee Children, Switzerland (subject)
Holocaust Refugee Children, Switzerland (see Holocaust Children Studies)
- Kastner Train -- Nonantola Children
- USHMM Database under: "Source: Jewish Arrivals In Switzerland, 1938-1945" (almost 6000 names)
Overview
The official policy was to limit the tide of incoming refugees in Switzerland. As of 13 August 1942, a Swiss Federal Council ruling stipulated that persons fleeing for racial reasons could not be considered as political refugees. However, children under 16 years of age could not be repelled at the frontier.
Approximately 1,100 children passed the Franco-Swiss border between February 1943 and July 1944.
Around 1,000 additional children came trough the Italo-Swiss border, out of 6,000 refugees from Italy.
Most children arrived in Switzerland illegally thru the French or the Italian border, but a few hundreds did it legally from Nazi Germany on board on the Kastner Train from Hungary or the 5 February 1945 Train from Theresienstadt. They were liberated in the last months of the war in exchange for money.
Youth Aliyah Homes in Switzerland
Versoix =
Versoix which opened on March 3, 1943 , was the first Youth Aliyah children's home in Switzerland. The Jewish Agency rented the former Institut Monier near Geneva in order to prepare youth for their future lives in a Kibbutz in Palestine. About 70 youth between the ages of 12 and 20 and 10 staff members lived in the home. The home was pluralistic and tolerant as the youth had affiliations with several different Zionist movements, both secular and religious. Most of the teenagers originally came from Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and France and crossed the border illegally into Switzerland. Their daily routine was divided into work and studies, and some of the older boys studied in Geneva in the ORT college and elsewhere. The home closed on May 29, 1945 after the bulk of the residents left for Palestine. A smaller number of youth rejoined families who had survived the Holocaust.
Les Murailles
Group portrait of Jewish refugee youth outside the Murailles children's home in Geneva. Pictured from left to right are: (front row) Alex Alter, Ludwig Mayer and Manfred Filipson; (second row) Kurt Frost, Otto Weiner, Yankel ?, and Theodore Brenig.
Group portrait of Jewish refugee children in Les Murailles children's home in Geneva. Among those pictured are Manfred Filipson (standing on the left with glasses), Theodore Brenig (middle), Alex Alter (next to him), David Bergman, Otto Weiner (right), Ludwig Meier (back left), Simon Nudel (standing fourth from right), and Tuvia Hirsch (third from right).
Book : La frontiera della speranza (1998)
Accepted in Switzerland as "political-racial" refugees
- Massimo Dawid (M / Poland, 1932), Holocaust survivor
- Raffaele Dawid (M / Poland, 1936), Holocaust survivor
- Michele Dawid (M / Poland, 1938), Holocaust survivor
- Tamara Gross (F / Croatia, 1931), Holocaust survivor
- Dina Gross (F / Croatia, 1934), Holocaust survivor
- Danko Gross (M / Croatia, 1939), Holocaust survivor
- Dina Gross (F / Croatia, 1936), Holocaust survivor
- [[Hanka Hamel (F / Poland, 1933) Henny
- [[Mario Hochberger (M / Austria / Italy, 1943) from Austria
- [[Ilan Jagher (M / Poland / Croatia, 1941) from Poland
- [[Boris Klein (M / Croatia, 1931)
- [[Carlo Kolar (M / Croatia / Italy, 1942) from Croatia
- [[Maia Kresich (F / Serbia, 1932 Maja Kresic
- [[Neva Kresich (F / Serbia, 1935 Neva Kresic
- [[Dina Lederer (F / Serbia, 1932
- [[Beatrice Lehrer (F / Croatia, 1934
- [[Erica Lehrer (F / Croatia, 1936
- [[Silvia Lerner (F / Germany, 1933
- [[Davide Levi (M / Serbia, 1935)
- [[Sceli Levi (M / Serbia, 1937)
- [[Menahem Levi (M / Bosnia, 1931)
- [[Erna Levi (M / Bosnia, 1936)
- [[Isidoro Levi (M / Bosnia, 1928)
- [[Menahem Levi (M / Bosnia, 1929)
- [[Raffaele Levi (M / Bosnia, 1933)
- [[Isacco Levi (M / Bosnia, 1936)
- [[Marion Loew (F / Germany, 1931)
- [[Sonia Macoro (F / Serbia, 1940) Macioro
Etc,
Pages in category "Holocaust Refugee Children, Switzerland (subject)"
The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 452 total.
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- Liliana Treves (F / Italy, 1939), Holocaust survivor
- Lea Wajsfeld (F / Belgium, 1939), Holocaust survivor
- Eva Amendola (F / Italy, 1940), Holocaust survivor
- Grazia Basevi (F / Italy, 1940), Holocaust survivor
- Ester Cohen (F / Libya, 1940), Holocaust survivor
- Mario De Benedetti (M / Italy, 1940), Holocaust survivor
- Janos Merei / John H. Merey (M / Hungary, 1940), Holocaust survivor
- Folco Movia (M / Italy, 1940), Holocaust survivor
- Frieda Wajsfeld (F / France, 1940), Holocaust survivor
- Ermanno Acht (M / Italy, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Roberto Alazraki (M / Italy, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Gabriella Ascoli (F / Italy, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Sonia Checinski (F / Poland / Italy, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Carlo Coen (M / Croatia, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Ilan Jaeger (M / Croatia, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Martha Ladany (F / Yugoslavia, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Eduardo Usiglio (M / Italy, 1941), Holocaust survivor
- Sergio Della Pergola (M / Italy, 1942), Holocaust survivor
- Deon Dietrichstein (M / Serbia, Italy, 1942), Holocaust survivor
- Umberto Fano (M / Italy, 1942), Holocaust survivor
- Freddy Markovics (M / Netherlands, 1942), Holocaust survivor
- Ada Orefice (F / Italy, 1942), Holocaust survivor
- Judith Rotem (F / Hungary, 1942), Holocaust survivor
- Carlo Valerio (M / Italy, 1942), Holocaust survivor
- Simon & Mania Wajsfeld (MF / France, 1942), Holocaust survivor
- Esther Widrich (F / Yugoslavia, 1942), Holocaust survivor
- Paola Acht (F / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Paolo Alazraki (M / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Marina Antonioli (F / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Gina Benaroio (F / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Davide Blej (M / Romania / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Anna Castelfranco (F / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Giorgio Cusgnasca (M / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Clara Danon (F / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Gianfranco Eminente (M / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Anna Finzi (F / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Carlo Franchetti (M / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Pier Maria Furlan (M / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Giancarlo Jarach (M / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Juliana Jarach (F / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Roberto Leoni (M / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Alessandra Lombroso (F / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Elena Mortara (F / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Alba Orefice (F / Italy, 1943, Holocaust survivor
- Michael Pinto-Duschinsky (M / Hungary, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Nicoletta Supino (F / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Dina Svecenski (F / Croatia / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Patrizia Valerio (F / Italy, 1943), Holocaust survivor
- Ersilia Barocas (F / Italy, 1944), Holocaust survivor
- Eva Frank (F / Hungary, 1944), Holocaust survivor
- Maria Piera Usiglio (F / Italy / Switzerland, 1944), Holocaust survivor
- Carlo Mortara (M / Italy / Switzerland, 1945), Holocaust survivor
Media in category "Holocaust Refugee Children, Switzerland (subject)"
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