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Another unfortunate but rare and significant find is Hilde Adler's 1936 Austrian Passport issued in Vienna. As Austria lost its sovereignty during the Anschluss in March 1938 - there is a stamp to document this in the passport not pictured, a nice rarity. What should be noted is her flight to Switzerland for two years between June 1938 (when Jews where encouraged to leave Austria under the Eichmann group in Vienna) and June 1940 as pictured in the second, third and final images. Her resident permit in Swiss expired in June 1940 and with the knowledge the Swiss would either extend or not extend it, foolishly left Swiss in the confusion of the French surrender to German forces in mid June 1940 to the Vichy, an unoccupied region of France. No French entry Visa is noted-however she may have had a separate Swiss travel permit for non-residents. Whatever reason I speculate, Yad Vashem documents her unfortunate demise as she was picked up in France and sent to Drancy Internment camp where she was held between 1940-42.
Below is a quote from Yad Vashem's database regarding Ms. Adler's fate: "Hilda Adler was born in Wien, Austria in 1911. During the war she was in France. Deported with Transport 30 from Drancy Camp, France to Auschwitz Birkenau, Extermination Camp, Poland on 09/09/1942. Hilda was murdered in the Shoah.
This information is based on a List of deportation from France, found in Le Mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France, Béate et Serge Klarsfeld, Paris 1978.
Very Sad indeed...