Jewish Refugees In Switzerland During The Holocaust

Author : Frieda Forman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133016803

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Jewish Refugees in Switzerland During the Holocaust by Frieda Forman Pdf

This is the first English-language memoir of the Jewish refugee experience in wartime Switzerland focusing on children's experiences and daily life in the refugee camps. The author integrates her memories of a refugee childhood with archival and historical research, including interviews. Fleeing the Nazis, the author's family was among the 25,000 Jews who sought refuge in Switzerland. The refugee camps were administered by Swiss government authorities with a peculiar mix of rigidity and compassion. Families were frequently separated, with men in one camp, and women and children in another. Thousands of refugee children were placed in foster care; many of them with non-Jewish foster families. At the same time, the refugees were allowed unparalleled scope for religious and cultural expression. Torn from a Jewish world that was fast disappearing, the refugees created a remarkable cultural life in the camps including educational programs for children and adults, vocational training, art classes for children, newspapers, theater productions, religious programs, music, lectures, and study groups. Paying particular attention to the experiences of women and children, the author explores the response of the Swiss Jewish community, and interviews some of the men and women who dealt with the refugees, including former welfare workers, camp administrators, and foster families. Research in the archives of the Swiss government, as well as of Jewish organizations, uncovers a treasure trove of official documents, along with refugee correspondence, photographs and children's art created in the camps. Original French, German, and Yiddish documents are translated into English for the first time to reveal the heated public debates about Switzerland's refugee policy and about the treatment of Jewish refugees.

Author : Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz--Zweiter Weltkrieg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Banks and banking, Swiss
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073261625

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Switzerland and Refugees in the Nazi Era by Unabhängige Expertenkommission Schweiz--Zweiter Weltkrieg Pdf

"English version has been translated from German and French original text.".

Author : Meir Wagner,Moshe Meisels
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0881256986

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The Righteous of Switzerland by Meir Wagner,Moshe Meisels Pdf

The English edition includes statements and speeches by various persons (pp. xvii-xxxviii), the stories of two more Swiss citizens nominated by Yad Vashem for recognition as Righteous of the Nations, and other lesser-known accounts of Swiss citizens who helped save Jews during the war. Some of them are published here for the first time.

Author : Frank Caestecker,Bob Moore
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1845455878

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Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States by Frank Caestecker,Bob Moore Pdf

"The exodus of refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s has received far more attention from historians, social scientists, and demographers than many other migrations and persecutions in Europe. However, as a result of the overwhelming attention that has been given to the Holocaust within the historiography of Europe and the Second World War, the issues surrounding the flight of people from Nazi Germany prior to 1939 have been seen as Vorgeschichte (pre-history) ... Based on a comparative analysis of national case studies, this volume deals with the challenges that the pre-1939 movement of refugees from Germany and Austria posed to the immigration controls in the countries of interwar Europe"--Publisher's description.

Author : Walter Laqueur
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857712875

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Generation Exodus by Walter Laqueur Pdf

This text is a generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. Half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. They were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survive and even flourish in new environments. This generation has produced such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger and "Dr Ruth" Westheimer. Walter Laqueur has drawn on interviews, published and unpublished memoirs and his own experiences as a member of this group of refugees, to paint a vivid and moving portrait of Generation Exodus.

Author : Nicola Caracciolo
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0252064240

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Uncertain Refuge by Nicola Caracciolo Pdf

Texts of interviews conducted in the mid-1980s for the television documentary "Il coraggio e la pietà". The interviewees included Holocaust survivors and former Italian officials. The survivors stressed that they managed to survive in wartime Italy due to the sympathetic stance of non-Jewish Italians, military and civil, who, while supporting fascism, refused to collaborate with the Nazis in the annihilation of the Jewish people. Pp. xv-xxiii contain a foreword by Renzo de Felice; pp. xxv-xxxiv contain an introduction by F.R. Koffler and R. Koffler; pp. xxxv-xli contain a prologue by Mario Toscano, relating briefly the history of the Italian Jews and fascist policy towards the Jews in 1936-45.

Author : Eliyana R. Adler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674250468

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Survival on the Margins by Eliyana R. Adler Pdf

Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research The forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the USSR. Between 1940 and 1946, about 200,000 Jewish refugees from Poland lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard labor, bitter cold, and extreme deprivation. But out of reach of the Nazis, they escaped the fate of millions of their coreligionists in the Holocaust. Survival on the Margins is the first comprehensive account in English of their experiences. The refugees fled Poland after the German invasion in 1939 and settled in the Soviet territories newly annexed under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Facing hardship, and trusting little in Stalin, most spurned the offer of Soviet citizenship and were deported to labor camps in unoccupied areas of the east. They were on their own, in a forbidding wilderness thousands of miles from home. But they inadvertently escaped Hitler’s 1941 advance into the Soviet Union. While war raged and Europe’s Jews faced genocide, the refugees were permitted to leave their settlements after the Soviet government agreed to an amnesty. Most spent the remainder of the war coping with hunger and disease in Soviet Central Asia. When they were finally allowed to return to Poland in 1946, they encountered the devastation of the Holocaust, and many stopped talking about their own ordeals, their stories eventually subsumed within the central Holocaust narrative. Drawing on untapped memoirs and testimonies of the survivors, Eliyana Adler rescues these important stories of determination and suffering on behalf of new generations.

Author : Phillipe Braillard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317722748

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Switzerland and the Crisis of the Dormant Assets and Nazi Gold by Phillipe Braillard Pdf

First Published in 2001. Sharp criticism was recently focused on Switzerland for its doings during World War II and the Swiss banks' policies with respect to dormant assets belonging to victims of the Holocaust, in a process that lasted more than two years, from spring 1996 to fall 1998. Through the determined action of interested parties, the whole process evolved into a violent crisis with an international dimension. This crisis finally came to an end when an overall settlement was reached under which the foremost Swiss banks agreed to pay $1.25 billion to the Jewish organisations and Holocaust victims who had taken up legal action before the American courts. The aim of this book is to lay bare the mechanics of this crisis that so violently shook Switzerland and harmed its international image. It endeavours to show how and why organisations and governments heaped attack on Switzerland. The declared and perfectly legitimate cause of the crisis was that of seeing justice for the victims of the Holocaust. Behind that lay a hidden agenda only a closer look can bring to light. The proposals made here open up an important area of discussion as international policymakers seek peace and stability in the post-Cold War world.

Author : Tom Bower
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019254122

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Nazi Gold by Tom Bower Pdf

Treasury Department - Sam Klaus, Orvis Schmidt, James Mann, and Seymour Rubin, to name a few - who struggled tirelessly for many years following World War II, with little support from the British and French, to get the Swiss to release the deposits to the rightful owners or their heirs.

Author : Yehuda Bauer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814343470

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American Jewry and the Holocaust by Yehuda Bauer Pdf

In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as well as on his thorough knowledge of recent and continuing research into the Holocaust, he focuses alternately on the personalities and institutional decisions in New York and their effects on the JDC workers and their rescue efforts in Europe. He balances personal stories with a country-by-country account of the fate of Jews through ought the war years: the grim statistics of millions deported and killed are set in the context of the hopes and frustrations of the heroic individuals and small groups who actively worked to prevent the Nazis' Final Solution. This study is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the American Jewish response to European events from 1939 to 1945. Bauer confronts the tremendous moral and historical questions arising from JDC's activities. How great was the danger? Who should be saved first? Was it justified to use illegal or extralegal means? What country would accept Jewish refugees? His analysis also raises an issue which perhaps can never be answered: could American Jews have done more if they had grasped the reality of the Holocaust?

Author : David Cesarani,Paul A. Levine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317791751

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Bystanders to the Holocaust by David Cesarani,Paul A. Levine Pdf

Using accessible archival sources, a team of historians reveal how much the USA, Britain, Switzerland and Sweden knew about the Nazi attempt to murder all the Jews of Europe during World War II.

Author : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073507209

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Flight and Rescue by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Pdf

The story of more than 2,000 Polish Jewish refugees who fled across the Soviet Union to Japan, where they awaited entrance visas to the United States and elsewhere.

Author : Renata Broggini
Publisher : Hoepli
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121481654

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Frontier of Hope by Renata Broggini Pdf

Author : W.D. Rubinstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134615698

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The Myth of Rescue by W.D. Rubinstein Pdf

It has long been argued that the Allies did little or nothing to rescue Europe's Jews. Arguing that this has been consistently misinterpreted, The Myth of Rescue states that few Jews who perished could have been saved by any action of the Allies. In his new introduction to the paperback edition, Willliam Rubinstein responds to the controversy caused by his challenging views, and considers further the question of bombing Auschwitz, which remains perhaps the most widely discussed alleged lost opportunity for saving Jews available to the Allies.

Author : Barbara Stern Burstin
Publisher : Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014607439

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After the Holocaust by Barbara Stern Burstin Pdf

Based on interviews with survivors and records of organizations which assisted in the resettlement of displaced persons, compares the experiences of 60 Polish Christians and 60 Polish Jews now living in Pittsburgh. Discusses prewar Poland, the Nazi occupation, and emigration to the USA. Ch. 2 (pp. 9-41), "Between Swastika and Sickle, " describes wartime experiences, mentioning life in the ghettos, the deportations, and the concentration camps. Notes that fear of antisemitism was a primary reason for leaving Poland after the war. Many of the Jewish survivors emphasized that the climate of hate was a continuation of their experiences with Polish antisemitism prior to and during the war. Ch. 4 also discusses the Displaced Persons Act which was considered to be discriminatory against Jews.