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Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser (7 March 1911 – 29 June 1995) was a Swiss humanitarian activist. For a quarter of a century she undertook work for the UNICEF, serving in successively more senior capacities between the organization's foundation and 1966. She then served between 1966 and 1971, as UNICEF vice-president and director for Europe and North Africa.
Her nomination, jointly with her ex-husband, in 1964 as Switzerland's first two "Righteous Among the Nations" related to an earlier stage in her life however: it was a recognition of the couple's role in rescuing an estimated 62,000 Jews from slaughter during her husband's posting as the Swiss vice-consul in Budapest, and following the invasion of Hungary by the forces of Nazi Germany in March 1944.
1911 |
March 7, 1911
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Rechthalten (Fribourg), Switzerland
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1995 |
June 29, 1995
Age 84
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