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

At the funeral service on February 26 for the victims of the bombing of Rafz, the population said farewell to the Saergen, lined up near the outer wall of the church. After an allied fighter plane of the US Air Force was bombarded by the Swiss Air Defence (Flab), the bomber went on to attack the border town of Rafz in the canton of Zurich on February 22, 1945 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.