Amalie Pinkus
Amalie Pinkus-De Sassi (born July 4, 1910 in Zurich ; † February 9, 1996 there ) was a Swiss women's rights activist and bookseller.
Life
Amalie Pinkus was the daughter of the homeworker Pierina De Sassi, nee Pasci, and of the chestnut seller and greengrocer Pietro Attilio De Sassi. She had a brother, Maurice.
Amalie De Sassi was orphaned at the age of 16, which meant that she was unable to attend an education for financial reasons. She worked as an assistant in an administration and later, after marrying Theo Pinkus in 1939, as an employee in her husband's bookstore. In 1929 she became a member of Red Aid and International Workers Aid (IAH). In 1931 she was one of the Swiss delegates at the congress for the tenth anniversary of the IAH in Berlin. She then traveled through the Soviet Union with an IAH delegation . After her return she became a member of the Swiss Communist Party and took over the secretariat of the communist newspaper Falce e Martello . In 1934 she was a delegate of the international congress Women against War and Fascism in Paris . In 1942 she was expelled from the Communist Party in connection with leadership and political struggles. Amalie De Sassi became a temporary member of the Social Democratic Party . She later joined the Labor Party .
From the late 1970s, Amalie De Sassi was involved in the women's liberation movement (FBB) and in the emerging alternative movements . She was one of the founders of the Salecina Foundation , of which she was President of the Board of Trustees until her death, and of Limmat Verlag .
Together with her husband Theo, she founded the 50,000-book study library on the history of the labor movement .
She and her husband had three sons: Marco, André and Felix.
Autobiography
- Life story of Amalie Pinkus De Sassi. For the first time in: FraueZiitig (FraZ), Zurich, July 1981; redesigned and freely online and published for the first time in Italian by the Salecina Foundation ( Salecina INFO No. 118, July 2010 ; PDF; 4.4 MB)
literature
- Rudolf M. Lüscher, Werner Schweizer, Urs Rauber, Jürg Frischknecht: Amalie and Theo Pinkus-DeSassi - Life in Contradiction Limmat-Verlag : Zurich 1994 ISBN 3-85791-202-2
- Gisela Notz : Amelie Pinkus-De Sassi . In: Günter Benser , Dagmar Goldbeck, Anja Kruke (eds.): Preserve, spread, enlighten. Archivists, librarians and collectors of the sources of the German-speaking labor movement. Supplement . Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-95861-591-5 , pp. 112–121. Online (PDF, 2.7 MB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Amalie Pinkus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Brigitte Studer: Pinkus (-De Sassi), Amalie. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.limmatverlag.ch/Default.htm?/antholog/mein.leben.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Study library on the history of the labor movement
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pinkus, Amalie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Sassi, Amalie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss women's rights activist and bookseller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1996 |
| Place of death | Zurich |