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People who arrived with the Kastner Train to Switzerland.

Kastner train
Jun 30, 1944 – Aug 18, 1944

The Kastner train consisted of 35 cattle wagons that left Budapest on 30 June 1944, during the German occupation of Hungary, carrying over 1,600 Jews temporarily to Bergen-Belsen and safety in Switzerland after large ransom paid by Swiss Orthodox Jew Yitzchak Sternbuch, Recha Sternbuch's husband. Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kastner_train