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Brissago is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. During World War Two it was the site of a camp for refugees and later survivors from Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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GB 1556 WL 1308 1945 Collection level 1 file Unidentified Swiss newspaper
Brissago is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. During World War Two it was the site of a camp for refugees and later survivors from Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Peter Schwab
List of survivors from Theresienstadt, 1945, who were taken to Switzerland and housed in a camp at Brissago (Ticino), Switzerland.
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Dietz, Edith, Freiheit in Grenzen: Meine Internierungszeit in der Schweiz 1942-1946, dipa Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
February 2008 Wars (events) Brissago Europe Genocide Holocaust Humanitarian law Migrants Refugees Switzerland Theresienstadt concentration camp x Terezin War crimes Western Europe World wars (events) World War Two (1939-1945)
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Peter Schwab
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List of survivors from Theresienstadt, 1945, who were taken to Switzerland and housed in a camp at Brissago (Ticino), Switzerland.
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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.
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