Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Mercè De Arce



ELISABETH  EIDENBENZ

BIOGRAPHY


Elizabeth Eidenbenz was born on June 12, 1913 in Wila, Swizerland. She died on May 23, 2011. Elisabeth was a teacher and a nurse.

She moved to Spain in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, where she was a volunteer to help Spanish children.
After the second Spanish Civil War was over, she helped exiled republicans when they were in concentration camps in the south of France. There, she founded the Maternity Hospital in Elna. In that hospital, she helped pregnant women from the concentration camps and their babies.
From 1956, and for many years on, she devoted all her time to rehabilitating working women.
In 2006, she was given the Catalan award Creu de Sant Jordi.

I admire her because she saved nearly 600 Spanish Refugees, women and children, travellers and Jewish during World War II.

April 17 2018

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