{"id":14710,"date":"2018-08-04T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-04T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/?p=14710"},"modified":"2018-08-01T22:59:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:59:56","slug":"sac-de-plage-lhistoire-de-gerda-blachmann-passagere-du-ss-saint-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lyonelkaufmann.ch\/histoire\/2018\/08\/04\/sac-de-plage-lhistoire-de-gerda-blachmann-passagere-du-ss-saint-louis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sac de plage : L’histoire de Gerda Blachmann, passag\u00e8re du SS Saint Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GERDA BLACHMANN (n\u00e9e le 24 avril 1923 \u00e0 Breslau (Allemagne)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Si la plupart des passagers du SS Saint Louis (voire notre pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent article<\/a>) connurent un destin tragique apr\u00e8s leur retour en Europe, quelques autres eurent plus de chance \u00e0 l’exemple de\u00a0Gerda Blachmann. Durant la guerre, d\u00e9guis\u00e9e en fermi\u00e8re, elle put passer en Suisse, fut intern\u00e9e dans un camps de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s en Suisse durant deux ans et put \u00e9migrer aux Etats-Unis en 1949. L’Holocaust Encyclopedia<\/a> nous fournit les indications suivantes concernant son passage et son s\u00e9jour en Suisse :<\/p>\n

\u00ab 1940-44: Disguised as farm women, my mother and I drove a hay wagon past the German border patrol to a farm on the French-Swiss border. We walked down a small ravine, crossed a stream and then slipped under a barbed-wire fence that marked the official border. But we were apprehended by Swiss border guards and held overnight. The next day, we were put on a train with other refugees. No one told us where we were going or what was going to happen to us.<\/em><\/p>\n

Gerda was interned in a refugee camp in Switzerland for two years, and then worked in Bern in a blouse factory until the end of the war. She emigrated to the United States in 1949. \u00bb<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apr\u00e8s la guerre, elle apprendra que son p\u00e8re est mort durant la d\u00e9portation. En 1989, elle d\u00e9crira pour le mus\u00e9e de l’Holocauste, l’\u00e9tat d’esprit des passagers en apprenant le refus de Cuba de les accueillir :<\/p>\n