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120 pictorial documents about immigration and internal migration in Switzerland
A 7: Object/ photo of Ernen ( Annelis's mother and grandmother's place of origin), with frame
One day they said, 'okay, we're emigrating!' Canada was mentioned. Mama was happy that the destination in the end was Thurgau, even though Thurgau has always remained a foreign place to her. We never went back to Brig. Now and then we'd go to Ernen where my Grandmother lived and my mother had grown up.
Annelis L.-I., born 1947, from Brig in Wallis, Switzerland