[2][3] With the aid of the Swiss representative Harald Feller, she managed to legally leave Budapest in October 1944 via Vienna with her two daughters Eva and Vera, and to return to St. Gallen, Switzerland, where she managed to restore her citizenship.
Vera Rottenberg's father survived the war and joined his family in Switzerland in 1946.
Vera Rottenberg attended school in St. Gallen, and studied law at the University of Zürich, graduating in 1973 with a doctorate.
[1] She replaced Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger, the first female Supreme Court judge elected in 1974.
She is a member of the board of governors of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists,[7] and was a member of the board of the consultation center for support of Holocaust survivors and their families (Tamach)[8] until it closed in 2014.