Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser

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Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser

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Birthplace: Rechthalten (Fribourg), Switzerland
Death: June 29, 1995 (84)
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Ex-wife of Carl (Charles) Lutz

Occupation: Swiss humanitarian activist
Managed by: Yigal Burstein
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About Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser

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.

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Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser's Timeline

1911
March 7, 1911
Rechthalten (Fribourg), Switzerland
1995
June 29, 1995
Age 84