Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documentation and articles regarding Swiss government policy towards refugees, 1950-1958
In the file:
Documentation regarding Simon Zehngut, a Jewish refugee from Vienna;
- Letter from Heinrich Rothmund regarding an article in the "Beobachter" newspaper regarding Rothmund's policy towards refugees when he was head of the police section at the Swiss Ministry of Justice during the war, 09 August 1954);
- Letter from Otto Heim, director of VSJF (Association of Swiss Jewish Welfare and Refugee Relief Organizations), to the Ministry of Justice regarding Zehngut, 03 April...
File Number : 20
Type of Material : Official Documentation, Record of Persecuted Persons, Personal Documents, Newspaper Clippings, Research Article
Testimony of Donald Krausz, born in the Netherlands, regarding his experiences as a youth in Westerbork and in the Ravensbrueck and Sachsenhausen camps
Deportation with his family to Westerbork, September 1942; attends school; permission given occasionally to his father to leave camp but under threat to deport his family to Auschwitz if he does not return; each Tuesday trains depart to the east; concentration of all the Hungarian Jews in the Netherlands, February 1944; deportation with his sister and mother to Ravensbrueck in a group of about 80 women and children; life in a barracks with antisemitic Polish...