Schwarz, Paul
1882-1951, German diplomat, Consul General in New York until 1933, dismissed after handover of power and exiled in the U.S. Financial advisor, later worked for the American intelligence service OSS (Office of Strategic Services).
Schwarz, Rudolf
1905-1994, conductor and pianist. 1933 Dismissed from his post as musical director at the Landestheater (state theatre) in Karlsruhe. 1936-1941 Directed the orchestra of the Cultural Federation of German Jews in Berlin. 1943 Deported to Auschwitz, from there sent to Bergen-Belsen via the concentration camp in Sachsenhausen. Emigrated to Sweden after the war ended. Later directed several renowned symphony orchestras in Britain.
Schwarzenbach, Annemarie
(1908-1942), Swiss writer and journalist, came from a family of Zurich industrialists, and was friends with Klaus and Erika Mann
Schwarzschild, Leopold
(1891-1950), editor and journalist, editor of the magazine "Das Tage-Buch" during the Weimar Republic; in 1933 he founded the exile magazine "Das Neue Tage-Buch" in Paris which he ran before escaping to the United States in 1940
Seabrook, William
1886-1945, American author and journalist. Was intensely interested in occultism and magic. In 1935 he married the author Marjorie Muir Worthington (1900–1976). His friends included Aldous Huxley, who organised the Sanary-Sur-Mer Garten parties in the 1930, which were frequented by many prominent guest including Thomas Mann and Lion und Marta Feuchtwanger.
Seidlin, Oskar
1911-1984, scholar of German, emigrated in 1933 to Switzerland and continued on to the United States of America in 1938
Seyppel, Joachim
1919-2012, German writer who initially worked as a university lecturer in the USA after the Second World War; he returned to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1961; relocated to the German Democratic Republic in 1973; returned to West Germany in 1979 as a critic of the GDR regime.
Shtetl
villages in the Russian Czarist Empire mainly located in rural areas and with a mainly Jewish population.
Siemsen, August
(1884-1958) socialist politician and educationalist. After fleeing to Switzerland in 1933, he moved as an expatriate to Argentina in 1936. There, Siemsen founded a school based on Pestalozzi’s educational principles and published the journal Das andere Deutschland [The Other Germany].
Sigurdsson, Sigrid
Born in Oslo in 1943, studied at Hamburg University of Fine Arts. Her works explore the themes of memory and remembrance. She has cooperated with institutions such as the Osthaus Museum in Hagen and the Historical Museum in Frankfurt to create memorial installations in the form of “open archives” which house the stories and memories of the people in the region.
