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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spelling cairn-RHSHO_203_0021RHSHORevue d’Histoire de la Shoah https://shs.cairn.info/revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah-2015-2-page-21?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rhsho.203.0021 Filières de passage de la France vers la Suisse Fivaz-Silbermann, Ruth2015 fre Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah | 203 | 2 | 2015-10-14 | p. 21-50 | 2111-885X RHSHO_20342 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.Cairn free access
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description 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.
author Fivaz-Silbermann, Ruth
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Filières de passage de la France vers la Suisse
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title Filières de passage de la France vers la Suisse
title_short Filières de passage de la France vers la Suisse
title_full Filières de passage de la France vers la Suisse
title_fullStr Filières de passage de la France vers la Suisse
title_full_unstemmed Filières de passage de la France vers la Suisse
title_sort filières de passage de la france vers la suisse
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