Sebastian Steiger

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Sebastian Steiger (born October 14, 1918 in Oltingen ; † July 2012 in Basel ) was a Swiss teacher and refugee shelfer.

Life

Sebastian Steiger grew up with four siblings as the son of the reformed pastor Walter Steiger in Oltingen, where he attended primary school. After attending secondary school in Binningen , he completed the four-year teachers' seminar in Schiers , which he completed with a teaching certificate. From 1940 to 1943 he taught as a deputy and studied one semester at the curative education seminar in Zurich.

From 1943 to 1945 he taught primarily Jewish refugee children in the colony of Château de la Hille in occupied southern France on behalf of the Children's Aid of the Swiss Red Cross .

After his return to Switzerland, he completed his studies with a diploma from the curative education seminar in Zurich and became a primary school teacher in Arlesheim . In 1947 he was appointed to the girls' primary school in Basel. In 1982 he retired and wrote a book about his experiences at La Hille Castle.

From 1958 to 1990 he held Jewish Child's Day every May , a day of remembrance for the one and a half million children who were murdered during the Nazi era. He was on the board of the Christian-Jewish Working Group and the Switzerland-Israel Society as well as on the Committee of Friends of the Swiss Children's Village Kiriat Yearim in Jerusalem . In 1985 he took part in the gathering of all the former children of La Hille Castle in Kibbutz Lehavot HaBashan in Israel who were somehow still reachable.

He married in 1956 and had three children.

Honors

Publications

documentation

  • Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet: Juste parmis les nations. Switzerland 2009, 50 min.
  • La filière. Switzerland 1987, 37 min., Directed by Jacqueline Veuve .

literature

  • Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet : Escape route through the back door. A Red Cross helper in occupied France 1942–1944 . Verlag im Waldgut, Frauenfeld 1985, ISBN 3-7294-0045-2 .
  • Meir Wagner, Moshe Meisels: The Righteous of Switzerland: Heroes of the Holocaust . KTAV Publishing House, Inc., Hoboken NJ 2001, ISBN 0881256986
  • Odile Munos-du Peloux: Passer en Suisse, les passages clandestins entre la Haute-Savoie et la Suisse, 1940-1944 . Press Universitaires de Grenoble, Grenoble 2002, ISBN 2706110732 .
  • Vera Friedländer: The children of La Hille. Escape and rescue from deportation . Construction Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-8106-5 .
  • Yagil Limore: Chrétiens et Juifs sous Vichy (1940-1944). Sauvetage et désobéissance civile. Foreword by Yehuda Bauer. 2005, ISBN 978-220407585-5 .
  • Antonia Schmidlin: The children's home in La Hille: Rösli Näf. One of the brave, heroic women our homeland looks up to with pride. In: Helena Kanyar Becker (ed.): Forgotten women. Humanitarian aid to children and official refugee policy 1917–1948. Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2010, ISBN 3-7965-2695-0 .
  • Serge Nessi: The Children's Aid of the Swiss Red Cross 1942–1945 and the role of the doctor Hugo Oltramare . Preface by Cornelio Sommaruga . Karolinger Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-85418-147-7 (French original edition: Éditions Slatkine , Genève 2011, ISBN 978-2-8321-0458-3 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sebastian Steiger on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
  2. ^ Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet: Juste parmis les nations at artfilm.ch
personal data
SURNAME Steiger, Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Oltingen
DATE OF DEATH July 2012
Place of death Basel