Switzerland World War II Bombing Rafz, 1945 (b/w photo)

At the funeral service on February 26, where the seven victims of the bombing of Rafz are buried, Federal Councillor Ernst Nobs, on the left, and a Federalweibel, on the right, will take part as representatives of the state government. After an allied fighter plane of the US Air Force was bombarded by the Swiss Air Defence (Flab) on February 22, 1945, the bomber went on to attack the border town of Rafz in the canton of Zurich and dropped six bombs near the church, causing great devastation. A direct hit completely destroys a single-family house and kills all the people in it, namely the whole Sigerist family - consisting of father, organist, mother and five children. So a visiting sister of the mother this.