Switzerland

The Free Runner: Escape from France, 1940

This confirmed that Dick had in fact travelled through France and made his way to Switzerland safely. The...

My Story of Capture and Evacuation through Italy and Switzerland

When the Germans retook Tobruk, speakers were erected around the camp, and we got German music and Italian...

Charles Cassidy 303rd Bomb Group (Hells Angels) 360th Bmb. Sqdn. Part 2

I believe that it was sometime in September that Brigadier General Legge, the United States Military...

Richard Bradley, Escape from Stalag VIIIB, Part 5 - Second bid for freedom

Somewhere along the line we were standing in a crowded carriage when a little Girl pointed at me and said...

A Lumberjill's Story - Maruguerite France Dommen

When War broke out I was in Switzerland with my parents, but I was British, because I was born there, and...

Intelligence work in Switzerland

Because he was multi lingual he volunteered for service at the British Consular at the outbreak of war and...

Childhood During the War in Switzwerland

I am Swiss, and my story is set in Switzerland in a small village called Nussbaumen, quite close to the...

Two Wars Part Four

These we would have to leave with the Partisans at the Swiss border up in the Alps, prior to entering...

Escape from Austria: My Brother Edgar’s Story

The original typescript of Lilly's story has been deposited in Shropshire Archives....

Going to Switzerland

Herr and Frau Messmer were my hosts, she was a Swiss Red Cross nurse and lived in 18 Heiner Street in St...

Escape to Switzerland

He managed to escape with a group of men and cycled through to Switzerland cycling from monastry to...