Filières de passage de la France vers la Suisse
Switzerland did not welcome Jewish refugees during the Nazi era, but nevertheless provided safe haven to 21,000 during the crisis years 1942-1944. Jews started fleeing to Switzerland as soon as large-scale deportation began, first in the Netherlands and Belgium, then in non-occupied France. Due to t...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Français |
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2015
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | Switzerland did not welcome Jewish refugees during the Nazi era, but nevertheless provided safe haven to 21,000 during the crisis years 1942-1944. Jews started fleeing to Switzerland as soon as large-scale deportation began, first in the Netherlands and Belgium, then in non-occupied France. Due to the lobbying of churches, relief organizations and political liberals, an initial complete shutting off of the border was alleviated. But fleeing was extremely risky and expensive. First flight channels were held by profit-making organizations, later ones by relief organizations turned into illegal resistance teams, who used Switzerland as a tool for saving human lives. Swiss limitations were utilized by choosing adequate candidates, and circumvented by altering ages and marital status. Among the approximately 15,000 Jews who managed to reach the French-Swiss border (of whom over 2,000 were turned back), a not insignificant number were smuggled in by the Jewish or the humanitarian resistance. |
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