Raymonde Berthoud (24 November 1919 – 27 May 2007) was born in
Neuchâtel
, neighboring_municipalities= Auvernier, Boudry, Chabrey (VD), Colombier, Cressier, Cudrefin (VD), Delley-Portalban (FR), Enges, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Hauterive, Saint-Blaise, Savagnier
, twintowns = Aarau (Switzerland), Besançon (France), ...
,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
and was the fourth of
Henri Berthoud Henri Berthoud (14 April 1877 – 3 August 1948) was a Swiss civil servant and member of the Council of States and National Council.
Berthoud was born in Neuchâtel and was the son of Jean-Edouard Berthoud and Georgine Léonie Panier. He was the f ...
and Marianne Perrier's five children. She was the sister of
Jean-Louis and
Denise Berthoud Denise Berthoud (27 September 1916 – 26 February 2005) was born in Neuchâtel and was the third of Henri Berthoud and Marianne Perrier's five children. She was the sister of Raymonde Berthoud, granddaughter of Jean-Edouard Berthoud, great-niec ...
, granddaughter of
Jean-Edouard Berthoud Jean-Édouard Berthoud (11 December 1846 – 21 June 1916), commonly referred to as Jean Berthoud, was born in Neuchâtel and was married to Georgine Léonie Panier. He was the son of pastoral theology professor Alexis-Henri Berthoud and Louise-Mari ...
, great-niece of
Louis Perrier and great-granddaughter of
Louis-Daniel Perrier
Louis-Daniel Perrier (1818–1903) was a Swiss architect from Neuchâtel, Switzerland. He was born in Paris although he was originally from the towns of Sainte-Croix and Orges in Switzerland. He studied art in Paris and Berlin before moving t ...
.
She is the first Swiss citizen to have ever earned the Swiss Abroad Prize for her huge contribution to her country's image. She hid
Jews during the
Second World War from the
Gestapo in
Budapest and also worked during six years in Budapest for the
Swiss Red Cross
The Swiss Red Cross (German: ', French: ', Italian: ', Romansh: '), or SRC, is the national Red Cross society for Switzerland.
The SRC was founded in 1866 in Bern, Switzerland. In accordance with the Geneva Red Cross Agreement and its r ...
delegation. Berthoud was given the title of honorary president of the Swiss Club in Hungary. In 1998 she was honored for her lifetime achievements when she received the Officer's Cross of the
Republic of Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
from
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. She died in Budapest where she is buried at the
Fiume Road National Graveyard.
References
* http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/index/New_prize_cites_Swiss_woman&%238217;s_role_in_Hungary.html?cid=2588504
* http://www.plr.ch/page/content/index.asp?ID=2802&Menu=3&Item=11.4&ConID=2802
* http://www.plr.ch/page/content/index.asp?ID=1488&Menu=3&Item=11.4&ConID=1488
* http://www.plr.ch/page/content/index.asp?ID=3579&Menu=3&Item=11.4&ConID=3579
* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4JCm_KBZe4UJ:www.reformatus.hu/archiv/2007/folytat_hirek.php%3Fcikk%3D1181451110+raymonde+berthoud+budapest&hl=en&client=firefox-a&strip=0
* http://www.neue-zeitung.hu/dokumentumok/nzg_31_2007.pdf
* http://www.ev-ref-gemein.de/_sgg/m5m1_1.htm
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People from Neuchâtel
Jewish Hungarian history
Swiss expatriates in Hungary
1919 births
2007 deaths