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Online Resources[edit | edit source]

1940s Jewish Arrivals in Switzerland at MyHeritage - index ($)
Jewish Switzerland
Jüdische Genealogie [Jewish Genealogy]

Jewish History in Switzerland[edit | edit source]

For more information on the history of Jews in Switzerland, read the Wikipedia article.
For a Jewish population density map of Europe in 1900, click here.

JewishGen.org[edit source]

Find others, possibly cousins, searching for your family name in the same countries, cities, and villages. Search by clicking JewishGen Family Finder. Free registration required.

Switzerland Civil Registration[edit | edit source]

Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths in Switzerland started as early as 1799, depending on canton. For more information, click here.

Jewish Arrivals In Switzerland, 1938-1945[edit | edit source]

1940s Jewish Arrivals in Switzerland at MyHeritage - index ($)
Find an explanation of the database by clicking here.
The above is part of JewishGen's Holocaust Database. To search this database, click here.

Genealogical Periodicals[edit | edit source]

A helpful periodical regarding Jews in Switzerland is Maajan-Die Quelle which can be seen at the FamilySearch Library.

Maajan-Die Quelle, Zeitschrift fuer Jüdische Familienforschung.
Organ der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Jüdische Genealogie und der Hamburger Gesellschaft für Jüdische Genealogie E.V.
Periodical 1987-present.

The call number at the FamilySearch Library is 949.4 D25m and their website is Schweizerische Vereinigung für Jüdische Genealogie.

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 == Jewish History in Switzerland  ==
-"The Jewish people had suffered discrimination in Christian Europe since time immemorial
+*For more information on the history of Jews in Switzerland, read the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Switzerland Wikipedia article].
-and were repeated victims of persecution in many countries, including Switzerland. After the
-Black Death in the mid-14th century, they were accused of being well-poisoners and suffered
-pogrom-like persecution, were killed, forced to convert to Christianity or exiled. Prior to 1798
-the Jewish community was tolerated in only two parts of Switzerland - Lengnau and
-Endingen (the common lordship of Baden, today the canton of Aargau).
-"Although the revolutionaries had granted civic equality to Jews in France as far back as
-, neither the Helvetic Republic nor the newly minted Swiss Confederation could bring
-themselves to do the same. Swiss Jews were considered as foreigners and the Swiss
-Constitution of 1848 denied them the freedom of establishment, trade and worship. Thanks
-to foreign pressure, particularly from France, the Jewish community in Switzerland was finally
-granted unlimited civil rights in 1866, and a provision to this end was added to the Federal
-Constitution of 1874."<ref>[https://www.eda.admin.ch/dam/PRS-Web/en/dokumente/der-bundesstaat-im-19-jahrhundert_EN.pdf]"The Jewish People," ''Switzerland in the 19th Century'', page 9.</ref>
-*For more information on the history of Jews in Switzerland, read the [[wikipedia:History_of_the_Jews_in_Switzerland|Wikipedia article]].
 *For a Jewish population density map of Europe in 1900, click [[Jewish Population Maps|here]].
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+== [[Switzerland Civil Registration]]  ==
-==[[Switzerland Civil Registration]]==
 Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths in Switzerland started as early as 1799, depending on canton. For more information, click [[Switzerland Civil Registration|here]].
-===Jewish Arrivals In Switzerland, 1938-1945===
+=== Jewish Arrivals In Switzerland, 1938-1945  ===
 *'''1940s''' [https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-20066/jewish-arrivals-in-switzerland?s=275764761 Jewish Arrivals in Switzerland] at MyHeritage - index ($)
 *Find an explanation of the database by clicking [http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0231_Swiss_arrivals.html here].
 *The above is part of JewishGen's Holocaust Database. To search this database, click [http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/ here].
-===Genealogical Periodicals===
+=== Genealogical Periodicals  ===
 *A helpful periodical regarding Jews in Switzerland is <u>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bkeywords%3AMaajan Maajan-Die Quelle]</u> which can be seen at the FamilySearch Library.<br> <br>'''Maajan-Die Quelle, Zeitschrift fuer Jüdische Familienforschung'''.<br>Organ der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Jüdische Genealogie und der Hamburger Gesellschaft für Jüdische Genealogie E.V.<br>Periodical 1987-present.<br> <br>The call number at the FamilySearch Library is 949.4 D25m and their website is [http://www.svjg.org Schweizerische Vereinigung für Jüdische Genealogie].
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