Tag: Switzerland
New scenic lookout inaugurated in Tiberius in memory of “Righteous Among the Nations” honoree,...
Last week, a new scenic lookout in Switzerland Forest, Tiberius was inaugurated in memory of Carl Lutz, the first Swiss national to be recognized by Yad Vashem as “Righteous Among the Nations” for his extraordinary efforts...
Swiss parliament votes to end funding of anti-Semitic NGOs
The Swiss Council of States passed today a resolution directing the government to "amend the laws, ordinances and regulations" to prevent funding to NGOs "involved in racist, anti-Semitic or hate incitement actions."
According to NGO...
New study claims Swiss rejected fewer Jews during Nazi era
According to historian Ruth Fivaz-Silbermann, who presented her 1,000-page postgraduate research project, ‘The flight to Switzerland’, at Geneva University last Saturday, 15,519 Jewish people tried to enter Switzerland via the Franco-Swiss border between 1939...