Archive / Pictorial documents
120 pictorial documents about immigration and internal migration in Switzerland
C 9: photo/ postcard size/ portrait/ black and white/ mother
My mother, a school-leaver, fled Hungary in 1956 at the age of eighteen through Austria to Switzerland. Because of her middle-class background -her father was an officer, and her grandfather a judge - she wasn't allowed to study. When her cousin and his parents came by to take their leave, she decided on the spur of the moment to go with them.
Katarin P., born 1962 in Zurich: her parents come from Hungary