Ein Zuhause für jüdische Flüchtlingskinder : Lilly Volkart und ihr Kinderheim in Ascona 1934-1947

Discusses Lilly Volkart's rescue action for Jewish children from all over Europe. In 1933 Volkart and 19 other Swiss women founded the Schweizer Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder (SHEK), which sheltered more than 10,000 children, most of them Jewish or of Jewish origin, in children's homes or with Swiss families. In 1942, when deportations began in France, Volkart opened additional homes. At least every seventh child who came under Volkart's care after 1942 had been interned in one of the camps in southern France, most of them in Gurs. Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-143). 146 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm