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Elisabeth Eidenbenz
Elisabeth Eidenbenz, (Wila, Switzerland, June 12, 1913 - Zurich, Switzerland, May 23, 2011) was a teacher and a nurse and founder of the Mothers of Elne (also known as ''Maternitat d'Elna'' in Catalan, ''Maternidad de Elna'' in Spanish and ''Maternité Suisse d'Elne'' in French). Between 1939 and 1944, she saved some 600 children who were mostly the children of Spanish Republicans, Jewish refugees and gypsies fleeing the Nazi invasion. Biography Elisabeth was a young teacher from Switzerland, teaching in Switzerland and Denmark until she decided to join the ''Asociación de Ayuda a los Niños en Guerra'' ("Association to Aid Children in War"). After the fall of the Spanish Republic many Republican exiles sought refuge in France, including the Roussillon, which is part of the Northern Catalonia region. But almost all of them were stopped and held in concentration/internment camps. There, fenced in the beach without any infrastructure, with the sand as the only protection a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Eidenbenz 1941
Elizabeth or Elisabeth may refer to: People * Elizabeth (given name), a female given name (including people with that name) * Elizabeth (biblical figure), mother of John the Baptist Ships * HMS ''Elizabeth'', several ships * ''Elisabeth'' (schooner), several ships * ''Elizabeth'' (freighter), an American freighter that was wrecked off New York harbor in 1850; see Places Australia * City of Elizabeth ** Elizabeth, South Australia * Elizabeth Reef, a coral reef in the Tasman Sea United States * Elizabeth, Arkansas * Elizabeth, Colorado * Elizabeth, Georgia * Elizabeth, Illinois * Elizabeth, Indiana * Hopkinsville, Kentucky, originally known as Elizabeth * Elizabeth, Louisiana * Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts * Elizabeth, Minnesota * Elizabeth, New Jersey, largest city with the name in the U.S. * Elizabeth City, North Carolina * Elizabeth (Charlotte neighborhood), North Carolina * Elizabeth, Pennsylvania * Elizabeth Township, Pennsylvania (other) * Elizabeth, We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayuda Suiza
The Comité Suizo de Ayuda a los niños de España ("Swiss Aid Committee for the Children of Spain"), better known as Ayuda Suiza ("Swiss Aid"), was a platform of Swiss non-governmental organizations, from diverse ideologies and tendencies, but working together to unify the Aid for children affected by the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The original name of this platform was ''Schweizerisches Hilfskomitee für die Kinder Spaniens (SAS),'' in German, and ''Comité neutre de secours aux enfants d'Espagne'', in French. Creation The Swiss Aid Committee was created in February 1937 at the initiative of Rodolfo Olgiati, secretary of the pacifist organization Service Civil Internacional (SCI), who promoted a plan to act in Spain and bring together the maximum number of Swiss entities to contribute to humanitarian aid, with the go-ahead from the Swiss federal government, which had initially been reluctant due to a strict interpretation of neutrality. In fact, SCI was very important in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
