Alice Eckenstein

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Alice Eckenstein (1890–1984), Swiss Red Cross (SRK) helper in the First World War. Family grave: Eckenstein-Marfort-Geigy-Zi on the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel. Sculpture by August Suter
Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery . Sculpture by August Suter

Alice Emilie Eckenstein (born January 31, 1890 in Basel ; † May 12, 1984 ibid) was an assistant to the Red Cross during the First World War .

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Alice Emilie Eckenstein, daughter of the businessman Arnold Eckenstein-Marfort, grew up on Grellingerstrasse in Basel. During the First World War, she worked at the relief agency for prisoners of war and civil internees, which was set up under the patronage of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Basel. Letters from relatives of warring countries passed through their hands at the time, especially petitions from parents whose children had been cut off from them by the German occupation of Belgium during the summer vacation of 1914 when the war broke out on the other side of the front .

Again and again she traveled to the occupied areas with great effort and danger in order to pick up individual children or entire groups and to return them to their parents via Switzerland. After the First World War, she became involved in the Friends of Young Girls Association , where she initially worked as a Swiss secretary and later as Vice-President. Alice Eckenstein died in 1984, her ashes are buried in the Wolfgottesacker in Basel .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckenstein, Alice In: A. Bruckner (Ed.): New Swiss Biography. Basel Report House, Basel 1938. Retrieved from the German Biographical Archive, p. 149.
personal data
SURNAME Eckenstein, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eckenstein, Alice Emilie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss helper of the Red Cross during the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1984
Place of death Basel