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6th September, 1942: a middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the
Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been
living in Switzerland since he fled Vienna in November 1938, as the
Nazi persecution of the city's Jewish population intensified. He is
now waiting for the arrival of the wife he has not seen for nearly
four years. Against all odds he has managed to get an entry permit
for her to join him in Switzerland. She appears on the French side.
They see each other. Call out. She begins to cross the few yards of
no-mans-land that separate them. An official calls her back. She
hesitates, turns, goes back - and is lost forever. This book tells
the story of the wartime journey of Toni Schiff, as she ventured
across Europe to the this fateful near-meeting at the Franco-Swiss
border - and what happened next. Based on the extensive research of
her daughter, Kindertransportee Hilda Schiff, and told by Sheila
Rosenberg, who shared much of the later research and many of the
research journeys, this book sheds light on the lives of one family
- caught up in, and ultimately separated by, the tragic and
tumultuous events of World War II.
6th September, 1942: a middle-aged Jewish refugee stands on the
Swiss side of the Franco-Swiss border above Geneva. He has been
living in Switzerland since he fled Vienna in November 1938, as the
Nazi persecution of the city's Jewish population intensified. He is
now waiting for the arrival of the wife he has not seen for nearly
four years. Against all odds he has managed to get an entry permit
for her to join him in Switzerland. She appears on the French side.
They see each other. Call out. She begins to cross the few yards of
no-mans-land that separate them. An official calls her back. She
hesitates, turns, goes back - and is lost forever. This book tells
the story of the wartime journey of Toni Schiff, as she ventured
across Europe to the this fateful near-meeting at the Franco-Swiss
border - and what happened next. Based on the extensive research of
her daughter, Kindertransportee Hilda Schiff, and told by Sheila
Rosenberg, who shared much of the later research and many of the
research journeys, this book sheds light on the lives of one family
- caught up in, and ultimately separated by, the tragic and
tumultuous events of World War II.
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