- Document ID: 132112719
- Document Collection: 7-14-1 Documentation of the CLI
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Sophia Clementine Jacobs » Indische genealogie » Genealogy Online (genealogieonline.nl)
Ik kom het document van Sophia Clementina Jacobs tegen op deze site.
Hierop staat dat haar laatste bekende adres in Zwitserland was. Hier heb ik vragen over:
Heeft Sophia op de transportlijst vanuit Theresienstadt naar Zwiserland gestaan? (feb.1945)
Waar is ze toen terecht gekomen? En waar is ze, vanuit Zwitserland naar toe gegaan?
Ben erg benieuwd of iemand me verder kan helpen.
In ieder geval alvast bedankt.
Lucy
N.B. Sophia is mijn oud tante (zus van mijn opa)
Hey Lucy,
welcome to #EveryNameCounts, and thanks for your question!
If you want a full answer to your question, you will most likely need to contact the archive directly (Submit your Inquiry - Arolsen Archives).
But I can give your first question: (I’ve collected information on the Lists from the CLI, you can find more general information here: List Material of the Central Location Index)
The Card is made from a Transport List (S 170, lower left corner), which was a collection of names of Persons released from Terezin, and transported to Switzerland (a total of 1210 Persons).
The List is located today at Yad Vashem, and digitised: https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/documents/9653797
(I’ve marked the entry in the list)
Lukas
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Also, there is another document in the online archives of the Arolsen Archives:
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/de/document/130274093
Hello Lucy!
Thank you for your message! It means a lot to me that you are trying to find out more about your great aunt.
This is her story:
Your great aunt was deported from Westerbork to Theresienstadt on 04-09-1944. She was interned in Theresienstadt from 06-09-1944 until 05-02-1945
https://www.pamatnik-terezin.cz/prisoner/te-sophie-14
On 5 February 1945, after negotiations with Swiss politician Jean-Marie Mussy, Himmler released a transport of 1,200 Jews (mostly from Germany and Holland) from Theresienstadt to neutral Switzerland; Jews on this transport travelled in Pullman passenger cars were provided with various luxuries, and had to remove their Star of David badges. Jewish organisations deposited a ransom of 5 million Swiss francs in escrowed accounts.
See:
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Your great aunt arrived from Theresienstadt via Kreuzlingen in Switzerland on 07.02.1945:
https://www.recherche.bar.admin.ch/recherche/#/fr/archive/unite/5196856?q=sofia%20cohen%20
Click on the eye icon (“Voir”) to see the different files. The files are in German. If you have problems understanding them, don’t hesitate to ask me for help.
According to the shown documents, she first stayed for a week in a DP-camp in Sankt Gallen and moved to the Hôtel des Sports in Les-Avants-sur-Montreux on 14-02-1945 Hôtel des Sports et Confiserie Haberstich | Riviera-Images
Eventually, she stayed in Chamby-sur-Montreux (as of 20-03-1945). She left Switzerland on 24.07.1945.
This document shows she returned to Holland.
https://collections-server.arolsen-archives.org/V/Ous_partitions/33/01020402/aa/bl/ea/001.jpg
https://collections-server.arolsen-archives.org/V/Ous_partitions/33/01020402/aa/bl/ea/002.jpg
Via Eindhoven (Badhuisweg 61) she arrived in The Hague on 31-05-1946 (van Boetzelaerlaan 189).
She died in 1979:
https://collecties.kampwesterbork.nl/persoon/10567785
This link gives another date of death:
https://gw.geneanet.org/struik3?lang=nl&iz=251&p=sophia+clementine&n=jacobs
I advice you to contact the archives of The Hague to find out where and when she died:
A picture of your great aunt in Switzerland:
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