Appendix to the exhibition: New Figures and Analyses on Refused Jewish Refugees

Current research on asylum policy provides new insights into rejected Jewish refugees. Historian Adriano Bazzocco presents surprising figures in his study, challenging the existing historical narrative. Particularly in Ticino and Mesolcina, the number of rejections is lower than previously assumed, yet the significance of these individual fates remains undisputed.

Research on asylum policy has meanwhile produced new results. Historian Adriano Bazzocco has recently published a study on Jewish refugees in which he provides new and partly surprising figures and analyses. The number of rejected Jews is much lower than the number published in 2002 by the Bergier Commission: in Canton Ticino and the Mesolcina at most 760 (with a rejection rate of 14%). However, as Bazzocco writes in his study, these figures are far from negligible: Every single rejected Jewish refugee reveals an insight into a dark side of Swiss history.