![In the 1940s there was a flourishing trade in fake passports. Switzerland was part of the racket. Illustration by Marco Heer](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-3-300x225.jpg)
A passport for every eventuality
In the 1940s, Jews in Europe found themselves in increasing danger. This situation benefited a number of individuals who issued false passports for exotic countries such as Honduras and Paraguay.
![Letter from Johanna Gundelfinger-Nahm to Alfons Bauer.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/brief-gundelfinger-225x300.jpg)
![Johanna Gundelfinger-Nahm’s Honduran passport, issued in May 1943.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/dokument-gundelfinger-213x300.jpg)
![In 1942, Irene Neuburger-Gundelfinger, born in South Africa, attempted to regain English citizenship.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/englische-staatsburgerschaft-300x216.jpg)
![Liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/befreiung-bergen-belsen-300x174.jpg)
“My heartfelt thanks go to Dina Wyler and her family (Winterthur / Zurich) for the items on loan and for the information.”
Naomi Lubrich
![Erika and Marion Neuburger together with Jenny Gundelfinger (middle) in an old photograph, and in a photograph from 2002.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/schwestern-e1657527289542-221x300.jpg)
Anne Frank and Switzerland
The diary of Anne Frank is world famous. It’s less well known that the journey to global publication began in Switzerland. Anne, her sister and her mother all died in the Holocaust. Otto Frank was the only family member to survive. After the war, he initially returned to Amsterdam. In the 1950s, he moved in with his sister in Basel. From there, he made it his task to share his daughter’s diary with the world whilst preserving her message on humanity and tolerance for the coming generations.