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Berty Haynes
Berty may refer to: * Berty Albrecht (1893-1943), French Resistance fighter * Berty Premalal Dissanayake (1954–2013), Sri Lankan politician * Louis Berty Ayock (b. 1983), Cameroonian footballer * Maurice Berty (1884–1946), French illustrator See also * Berti * Bertie (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berty Albrecht
Berty Albrecht (15 February 1893 – 31 May 1943) was a French feminist and Resistance martyr. Life Albrecht was born Berthe Wild in Marseilles on 15 February 1893 to a middle-class Protestant family. She married the Dutch banker Frédéric Albrecht in 1918. They had two children, Frédéric and Mireille. Separated from her husband, she moved to Paris, where she made friends with Victor Basch, a teacher at the Sorbonne and the president of the Human Rights League. She founded a feminist journal, ''Le Problème Sexuel'' (''The Sexual Problem''), in which she campaigned for the right to access contraception and abortion. Conscious of the reality of Nazism and hostile to the Munich Accords, she founded a welcome centre for German refugees. There she met Captain Henri Frenay and participated in all of his Resistance initiatives, despite their political differences. She was close to the Communists, whereas Frenay, although a visceral enemy of the Nazis and collaborators, made an exc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
