Julius Stein, a German citizen later deprived of his citizenship, emigrated to the Netherlands in 1937 with his family: his wife Elfriede-Ernestine née Beer (1909) and his two daughters Eva (1935) and Renata (1937). They settle in Driebergen. In June 1942, they flee to France via Belgium where they stay for a while, go to Lyon, and are forcefully settled in Aiguebelette-le-Lac (Dept. Savoie). There they are arrested by the Vichy police on August 26, 1942. Elfriede Stein and her younger daughter escape, together with Elfriede's mother, Helene Beer, and her brother, Ernst Beer, who live with them. But Julius and his elder daughter Eva are kept. The little girl is freed from Vénissieux camp by the rescue team, who asks Julius to sign an abandonment of parentship, leaving Eva with «Amitié chrétienne», a Christian-Jewish relief and rescue organization in Lyon. Julius is sent to Drancy and deported to Auschwitz on September 2, 1942 (convoy 27). Little Eva is hidden in a children's home near Lyon and later brought to Switzerland by René Nodot, a Swiss-French Vichy civil servant and resistant, with the help of Father Marius Jolivet, the local priest of Collonges-sous-Salève. In the meantime, the rest of the family has managed to reach Switzerland, too.
Sources: Swiss Federal Archives; Geneva State Archives; NODOT, René, Mémoires d'un juste. Résistance non violente 1940-1944. [S.l.], Editions Ampelos, 2011 (1978).