List of the Righteous Among the Nations from Switzerland
The list of the Righteous Among the Nations from Switzerland contains Swiss people who were honored as Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli Yad Vashem memorial for saving Jews during the Nazi era . Further honors have been given since 2007.
Since 1953, the State of Israel has honored people as Righteous Among the Nations who took great personal risks between 1933 and 1945 and put their lives in danger in order to protect Jews threatened with deportation to labor or extermination camps . In Yad Vashem, a plaque is placed for each person in the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations , and a tree was planted for each of the early honored people in the Alley of the Righteous Among the Nations , but this has become rare due to lack of space. As of January 1, 2019, the number of the Righteous totaled 27,362, including 49 Swiss. According to other sources, the list of the Swiss righteous in 2007 already included more than 60 people. Further honors followed from 2007.
Due to the large number of people, the entire list is divided according to nationalities. For other nations, see List of the Righteous Among the Nations .
list
Surname | Born | Died | place | Reason for the honor | year |
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Georges Allenbach | |||||
Werner Theodore (Bill) Barazetti | 1914 Aarau | 2000 | Prague | In 1939 in Prague, together with Nicholas Winton , organized the transport of more than 660 children to Great Britain . | 1993 |
Emile Barras | 1921 Avry-devant-Pont | 1996 | Viry , Haute-Savoie | French-Swiss dual citizen. He helped Allied military personnel and Jewish children across the border from Savoy to Switzerland. Employee of Marianne Cohn , who was tortured and murdered. | 1995 |
Louis-Maxime flower beds | 1898 | 1958 | Douvaine , Haute-Savoie | The farmer temporarily took in several Jewish families before their passage to Switzerland and a Jewish girl. | 1987 |
Léontine Beetschen-Bullat | 1898 | 1991 | Douvaine , Haute-Savoie | She and her husband took in several persecuted Jews. | 1987 |
Marie Meienhofer (Soeur Jeanne Berchmans) | 1897 Bremgarten AG | Thonon-les-Bains , Haute-Savoie | Entry into the Sacred Heart Order (1924); until the end of the war hid three Jews from Vienna in the community monastery in Thonon-les-Bains. | 1991 | |
André Bettex | |||||
August Bohny | July 7, 1919 | 18 Aug 2016 | Le Chambon-sur-Lignon | He was co-founder and director of the Abric, Faidoli, Atelier Cévenol and Ferme Ecole houses in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, where he, together with Pastor André Trocmé and local refugee workers, helped save numerous children from raids and deportations. | 1990 |
Friedel Bohny-Reiter | May 20, 1912 | Dec 18, 2001 | Camp de Rivesaltes / Le Chambon-sur-Lignon | She worked with her husband August Bohny for the Le Chambon-sur-Lignon children's home, worked with Emma Ott , Elsa Lüthi-Ruth and Elisabeth Eidenbenz from the Maternité suisse d'Elne and was able to manage numerous internees before they were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp save. | 1990 |
Friedrich Born | June 10, 1903 Langenthal | Jan. 14, 1963 | Budapest | As a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Budapest, he set up hospitals, children's and orphanages and people's kitchens for the Hungarian Jews; Thousands of Jews escaped deportation in these shelters and through Born's work. | 1987 |
Charles-Jean Bovet | July 22, 1900 Villaz-Saint-Pierre | March 20, 1952 Dijon | Archamps , Haute-Savoie | Catholic priest. Hid at least one persecuted Jewish person in the rectory until he fled to Switzerland. | 1989 |
Ernest Brouze | Novel | 1997 | |||
Germaine Brouze | Novel | 1997 | |||
Eduard Benedikt Brunschweiler | 1910 | 1987 | Pannonhalma | 2007 | |
Anton Bühler | 1890 | 1973 | Switzerland-Austria border | Graubünden lawyer, civil servant at the Department of Justice and Police of the Canton of Graubünden. After the border with Austria was closed, he allowed a group of Jews to enter Switzerland. | 2001 |
May Calame-Rosset, née White | Brussels | May Calame-White lived in Brussels. Together with her husband, she accommodated Allied airmen, two Jewish families and a young girl in their home. | 1998 | ||
Paul Calame-Rosset | 1905 Tavannes | 2003 | Brussels | Paul Calame lived in Brussels and was active in the Belgian resistance. He housed Allied aviators, two Jewish families and a young girl in his home. | 1998 |
Alicja Cerny-Seipp | 1923 | Warsaw | She and her mother hid a Jewish family of three in their apartment in Warsaw. | 1982 | |
Marguerite Constantin-Marclay | 1927 | Champéry | Marguerite Constantin-Marclay and her parents took in fourteen Jews in 1942. | 2001 | |
Daniel Curtet | Fay-sur-Lignon , Haute-Loire department | Pastor's son, active as pastor in Fay-sur-Lignon. Hid refugees with him and then placed them in the Protestant community of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon . He helped other refugees across the border into Switzerland. | 1987 | ||
Suzanne Curtet | Fay-sur-Lignon , Haute-Loire department | Wife of Daniel Curtet. Both took refugees into their homes. | 1987 | ||
Jacqueline de Pury | 1909 Neuchâtel | 1973 | Lyon | Assisted her husband in saving Jews. | 1976 |
Roland de Pury | Sep 15 1907 Geneva | Jan. 24, 1979 | Lyon | Swiss pastor, who helped Jews to leave France for Switzerland from 1940 in Lyon under the Vichy regime , preached against the National Socialist racial ideology and was arrested during a church service. | 1976 |
Maurice Dubois | July 17, 1905 Biel | Dec 6, 1997 | Château de la Hille , Ariège department | Head of delegation of the Swiss Working Group for War Damaged Children (SAK) , Children's Aid of the Swiss Red Cross and the Swiss Donation in southern France. | 1985 |
Marcel Ducommun | 1907 | 2010 | |||
Hélène Ducommun-Alquier | 1910 | 2010 | |||
Elisabeth Eidenbenz | June 12, 1913 Wila | May 23, 2011 | Maternité suisse d'Elne , Pyrénées-Orientales department | She was the founder and head of Maternité suisse d'Elne , and helped those who were persecuted to flee to Switzerland with forged papers. | 2001 |
Renee Farny | October 10, 1919 Indre-et-Loire department | March 1, 1979 | Saint-Cergues , Haute-Savoie | Vice-Director of the “Les Feux follets” children's colony in Saint-Cergues les Voirons . Escape assistant for the young people from La Hille . | 1992 |
Harald Feller | Jan. 14, 1913 Bern | Dec 28, 2003 | Budapest | As a diplomat in Budapest, he first hid Jews in his own house in Buda, then in the air raid shelter of the Swiss legation's office. He issued forged Swiss passports. | 1999 |
Anna Flescher-Riesen | Rome | Hid her future husband, Joachim Flescher, in her apartment during the German occupation. | 2008 | ||
Laure (Loly) Francken | Novel , Haute-Savoie | 1997 | |||
William Francken | 1889 Rotterdam | 1962 | Novel , Haute-Savoie | 1997 | |
Jean-Edouard Friedrich | 1912 Shanghai | 1999 | Berlin | Worked for the ICRC from 1942 to 1946. Accompanied two women to the Swiss border. | 1999 |
Emma Giannini-Aeppli | Faverges , Haute-Savoie | Emma Aeppli worked in the children's colony in Faverges, where she met her future husband. Together they accompanied two Jewish children across the border into Switzerland in August 1943. | 2000 | ||
Mark Gander | 2015 | ||||
Jane Gander | 2015 | ||||
Walter Giannini | 1914 | 2003 | Faverges , Haute-Savoie | Teacher in the children's colony in Faverges. Accompanied two Jewish children across the border into Switzerland (August 1943). | 2000 |
Agnès Gilardino-Rutschi | frontière franco-suisse | 1977 | |||
Albert Gross | 1904 Lausanne | 1975 | Gurs concentration camp | Catholic priest, head of the Saint-Justin foyer in Friborg . Pastor in the Gurs concentration camp , where he hid about 40 Jews and thus saved them from deportation. | 1989 |
Paul Grüninger | Oct. 27, 1891 St. Gallen | Feb 22, 1972 | St. Gallen | By pre-dating entry visas and forging documents, as a police captain he enabled more than 3,000 refugees to enter Switzerland. Grüninger was suspended from duty for this in 1939 and sentenced to a fine. He was only politically rehabilitated by the canton of St. Gallen in 1993. | 1971 |
Hildegard Gutzwiller | 1897 | 1957 | Budapest | Belonged to the religious community of the Holy Cross. Joined the Sophianum in Budapest in 1927 and became superior in 1934. From 1944 to 1945 about 250 people hid in the order house, including about 40 Jewish women and children. | 1995 |
Otto Haggenmacher | Budapest | Active as an industrialist in Budapest. Hid more than 30 Jewish children in his home. | 2003 | ||
Elise Höfler-Brütsch | Ramsen SH | Germany | 2001 | ||
Germaine Hommel | June 20, 1893 | Aug 30, 1982 | Saint-Cergues , Haute-Savoie | Born in France, married to a Swiss citizen. Directrice of the children's colony "Les Feux follets" in Saint-Cergues les Voirons . Escape helper for the young people of La Hille (together with Léon Balland and Marthe Bouvard ). Member of the Resistance 1943–1944. Arrest and deportation to Ravensbrück concentration camp . | 1992 |
Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet | Apr 12, 1916 Le Sentier | Dec 18, 2010 | Château de la Hille | When the National Socialists also occupied the south of France, Im Hof-Piguet saved twelve Jewish children by illegally bringing them across the border into Switzerland with the help of the Passeusen Victoria and Madeleine Cordier . | 1990 |
Frieda Impekoven | 1880 Zurich | Frankfurt am Main | 1966 | ||
Ernest Ischy | Paris | Working as a businessman in Paris; A Jewish surgeon friend and his mother were hiding in his house. | 1991 | ||
Yannick Ischy | Paris | Hid a Jewish surgeon and her mother in her home with her husband. | 1991 | ||
Arthur Jaccard | 1883 | 1943 | Ain department | Together with his wife and daughter, hid several Jews on their way to Switzerland in their farm in the Ain department. | 2007 |
Wilhelmine Jaccard | Ain department | Hid Jews who were persecuted together with her husband on their farm. | 2007 | ||
Ruth Monney-Jaccard | Ain department | Daughter of Arthur and Wilhelmine Jaccard. Like her parents, she was part of Roland de Pury's network . | 2007 | ||
Maria Junker-Kissling | 1914 | 2000 | Department of Indre ; Limoges , Haute-Vienne department | Working as a governess in France, she supported individual Jewish refugees, including many children. Engaged in the Resistance and helped 18 persecuted Jews across the Swiss border. | 1973 |
Arthur Lavergnat | 1914 Bossey (Haute-Savoie) | 1980 | Troinex | 1990 | |
Jeanne Lavergnat | 1920 | Troinex | 1990 | ||
Carl Lutz | March 30, 1895 Walzenhausen | February 12, 1975 Bern | Budapest | From May 1944 he issued protection passports and letters of protection to Jews who wanted to emigrate to Palestine, and obtained from the relevant occupation authorities that the ID cards were respected. In doing so, Lutz acted in part against the express guidelines of the Swiss government. | 1964 |
Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser | July 3, 1911 Keep right | June 29, 1995 | Budapest | Was involved in the rescue of thousands of Hungarian Jews together with her husband Carl Lutz . | 1978 |
Emile Marclay | 1897 | 1987 | Champéry | Emile Marclay and his family took in a total of 14 Jews. | 2001 |
Lina Marclay-Studer | 1914 | 2000 | Champéry | Lina Marclay-Studer, her husband and daughter took in a total of 14 Jews in their chalet in Champéry. | 2001 |
Antoinette Masserey | Rulhe Aveyron department | Religious in the religious community of the Holy Family in Rulhe. In 1943 and 1944 it took in a total of 24 Jews, some of whom were able to flee to Spain. | 1979 | ||
Auguste Matringe | 1894 role VD | 1984 | Lyon , Rhône department | Chemical engineer in France, hid Jews in his factory and put their children in the country. | 2001 |
Germaine Muehlenthaler | Marseille | As the director of the Christian Young People's Association in Marseille, she helped several Jewish youths, hid them and procured forged papers. | 1967 | ||
Rösli Näf | 1911 Glarus | 1996 Glarus | Château de la Hille , Montégut-Plantaurel - Ariège department | Directrice du Château de la Hille . The Swiss nurse Rosa (Rösli) Näf managed the La Hille colony during the terrible years of 1941 and 1942. She looked after and persecuted foreign children, including many Jews. At the risk of her life, Rösli Näf tried to save her protégés from deportation to the extermination camps. | 1989 |
René Nodot | 1916 Bourg-en-Bresse , Ain department | 1999? | Lyon | French-Swiss dual citizen. Engaged in the Resistance, he warned Jews of the impending arrest and helped hide them. Rescued at least 30 Jews during the raid in Bourg-en-Bresse in August 1943. | 1974 |
Marcel Pasche | 1911 Bern | 2006 | Roubaix North Department | As a reformed pastor of Roubaix, he helped a German Jew to flee and looked after his family. | 1992 |
Ernest Prodolliet_ (diplomat) | 1905 Amriswil | 1984 | Bregenz | In his capacity as head of the passport department at the Swiss consular agency in Bregenz (April 1, 1938) he issued approx. 300 transit visas to Austrian Jews. He convinced the border officials to allow them entry without a visa. | 1982 |
Anna Paszkiewicz | 1906 | 1993 | Wisokie Litewskie , Poland (now Belarus ) | 1998 | |
Frédéric (Fred) Reymond | 1907 Le Sentier | 1999 | Le Sentier , Vallée de Joux | In his role as an officer in the Swiss intelligence service, he often crossed the border between Switzerland and the German-occupied France. When he crossed the border, Reymond made it possible for numerous Jews, escaped prisoners of war, resistance fighters and Allied soldiers to flee to Switzerland. There he and his wife hid them in his house, provided them with food and helped them to flee with money and train tickets. | 1998 |
August Rutschi | Monnetier-Mornex , Haute-Savoie | The retired pastor took in a Jewish couple from Belgium in his house in Haute-Savoie . | 1977 | ||
Cécile Rutschi | Monnetier-Mornex , Haute-Savoie | Together with their husband they took in a Jewish couple from Belgium. | 1977 | ||
Hans Schaffert | 1918 | 2003 | Gurs concentration camp | Swiss theologian, student of Karl Barth . In 1942 he organized the escape of prisoners to Spain and Switzerland in the Gurs concentration camp . | 1967 |
Martha Schmidt | Zurich 1900? | Lépin | From 1943 on she looked after the four daughters of a befriended family and placed them with a friend in France, where they survived the war. | 1993 | |
Anne Schneeberger | Roanne , Loire department | She and her husband took in a young Polish Jew. This survived the war in a safe hiding place. | 1999 | ||
Arthur Schneeberger | Roanne , Loire department | He and his wife took a Polish Jew into our home. This survived the war. | 1999 | ||
Jakob F. Spirig | 2007 | ||||
Sebastian Steiger | 1918 Oltingen | July 2012 | Château de la Hille | Pastor's son and teacher of Jewish children in the La Hille colony from 1943 (SRK Children's Aid). He gave his identity card to a threatened protégé who managed to escape to Switzerland in this way. | 1993 |
Margaretha (Gret) Tobler | 1915 Zurich | Château de la Hille | Pastor's daughter and trained kindergarten teacher, from 1942 with the SRK Children's Aid. Responsible for the youngest children in the La Hille colony. In December 1943, she and two young Jewish girls succeeded in moving to Switzerland. | 2000 | |
Milorad Tosic | 1909 | 2000 | Budapest | Yugoslav industrialist in Maribor; Escape to Hungary in July 1943. Received letters of protection and forged papers from Eduard Hürlimann from the Swiss embassy in Budapest, which he passed on to Yugoslavs of Jewish faith. Also supported Hungarian Jews and brought Yugoslav Jews from the Great Ghetto into shelters. 1941. | 1978 |
Marguerite Tzaut | Tonneins , Lot-et-Garonne department | Heilsarmistin , head of the Salvation Army retirement home near Tonneins. Hid about 15 persecuted Jews together with her husband in the old people's home. | 1973 | ||
Paul Tzaut | 1901? | 1994 | Tonneins , Lot-et-Garonne department | Salvation Armist since 1921. Hid about 15 persecuted Jews together with his wife in the Salvation Army retirement home near Tonneins. | 1973 |
Ernst Vonrufs | 1906 | 1972 | Budapest | Textile industrialist in Budapest since 1935. Employee of Carl Lutz (representation of foreign interests). From December 1944 until the arrival of the Red Army, he and Peter Zürcher protected the international ghetto and the glass house (Budapest) from attacks by the Arrow Cross members . | 2001 |
Joachim von Zedtwitz | Vienna | Vienna ; Prague | 1994 | ||
Edgar Falls | 1908 Switzerland | 1974 | Lassalle , Gard department | Pastor in Lassalle, became involved in the Resistance at an early age. Took a Jewish couple in their house in 1943 and found a hiding place for their two children. | 2000 |
Elise falls | 1898 Alès | 1997 | Lassalle , Gard department | In 1943, a Jewish couple found protection from persecution in their home and survived the war despite denunciations and house searches. | 2000 |
Ernest Wittwer | 1922 Albligen | 1976 | Montency ; Vereux , Haute-Saône department | Settled in France with his family in 1939. Accompanied two Jewish children across the border into Switzerland. Arrested in Porrentruy on April 27, 1944 and sentenced to 60 days in prison, he was rehabilitated in 2004. | 1998 |
Irena Zadarnowska | 1916 Poland | 1986 | Poland | Held a Jewish mother and her daughter in her house. All three arrived in Switzerland in April 1945. | 1964 |
Jeanne-Françoise Zufferey | Rulhe , Aveyron department | Religious sister in the religious community of the Holy Family. Hidden 24 Jews in the religious house, some of whom escaped across the Spanish border and thus escaped persecution. | 1993 | ||
Peter Zürcher | 1914 | 1975 | Budapest | Lawyer, textile industrialist in Budapest since 1940. From December 1944 until the arrival of the Red Army, he and Ernst Vonrufs protected the international ghetto and the glass house (Budapest) from attacks by the Arrow Cross . | 1998 |
literature
- Meir Wagner, Mosche Meisels: The righteous of Switzerland: a documentation of humanity . Tel Aviv 1999. 155 p. Foreword by Flavio Cotti . Contents. (PDF)
- François Wisard: Les Justes suisses. Des actes de Courage méconnus au temps de la Shoah . Geneva 2007 (CICAD)
- Sylvie Arsever: Des Suisses face au nazisme. Devoir de désobéissance . In: Le Temps , January 28, 2008
- Bill Barazetti . In: The Times , October 9, 2000
Web links
- Righteous Among the Nations on the side of the Yad Vashem Memorial, u. a. with a list of the Swiss (PDF; 163 kB)
Footnotes
- ↑ “Righteous Among the Nations” - by country and ethnic origin January 1, 2019. Accessed February 3, 2020 .
- ↑ François Wisard: Les Justes suisses. Des actes de Courage méconnus au temps de la Shoah . Geneva 2007 (CICAD)
- ^ Son of a Swiss father who renounced Swiss citizenship.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j At Yad Vashem in the list of French (as of January 1, 2012; PDF; 1.0 MB), based on the book Die Gerechte der Schweiz: a documentation of humanity (see Literature section ) assigned to the Swiss list.
- ↑ Born in Poland, she settled in Switzerland in the 1960s. American citizens.
- ↑ The daughter of August and Cécile Rutschi, born in Switzerland, lost her Swiss citizenship due to the legislation at the time through her marriage to a foreigner.
- ↑ Hildegard Gutzwiller on the page of Yad Vashem
- ↑ Born in Switzerland, due to the legislation of the time, she lost her Swiss citizenship through her marriage to a foreigner.
- ↑ Frieda Kobler, Swiss by birth, lost her Swiss citizenship due to the legislation at the time through her marriage to a foreigner.
- ↑ Born in France, he settled in Switzerland after the war and took on Swiss citizenship.
- ↑ Born in France, she settled in Switzerland after the war and took on Swiss citizenship.
- ↑ Son of a French and a Swiss woman, French citizen, settled in Switzerland in 1959 after his retirement.
- ↑ Born in Poland, she settled in Baden AG around 1970 and became Swiss through marriage.
- ↑ Born in Yugoslavia. Sentenced to 12 years of forced labor in Tito's Yugoslavia , he came to Switzerland in 1960 as a political refugee.
- ↑ Born in Austria, he settled in Switzerland in 1948 and was naturalized in the 1980s.
- ↑ Born in Poland, lived as a painter in Switzerland from 1945.