Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet

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Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (born April 12, 1916 in Martigny , † December 18, 2010 in Bern ) was a Swiss escape worker and human rights activist .

Life

Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet grew up in the Vallée de Joux . She graduated from the University of Lausanne with a degree in history in 1940 . In the years 1942–1944 she worked for the children's aid of the Swiss Red Cross in the Château de Bellevue in Montluel and in the Château de la Hille near Toulouse .

When the National Socialists also occupied the south of France, Im Hof-Piguet saved twelve Jewish children and adults by helping them illegally across the border into Switzerland. The escape route led from La Hille via Toulouse , Lyon , Montluel children's colony , Champagnole (where the Passeusen Victoria Cordier and her sister Madeleine lived) to Chappelle-des-Bois. From Chapelle-des-Bois, where the mother of the resident Victoria Cordier lived, via the Gy de l'Echelle path carved into the rock on Mont Risoux to the meeting point on the Swiss side in the logger's hut Hôtel d'Italie . There the Jewish refugees were picked up by Im Hof-Piguet's father, the forest inspector Henri-Joseph Piguet . Her mother accompanied the refugees to Zurich to see the refugee pastor Vogt .

After the Second World War she worked as a teacher in the cantons of Vaud and Basel-Stadt . In 1947 she married the historian Ulrich Im Hof , started a family and worked as a teacher in Bern.

In 1959 she was a co-founder of Swisscontact . In 1985 she published her memoirs, where she described her experiences as a Red Cross worker. With the money from the Doron Prize in 1998, she launched the Academy of Human Rights as an education and meeting center.

Her estate is in the Archives for Contemporary History in Zurich.

Honors

Publications

  • La filière en France occupée 1942–1944. Editions de la Thièle, Yverdons-les-Bains 1985, ISBN 2-8283-0019-6 . German translation: Escape route through the back door: A Red Cross helper in occupied France 1942–1944. Im Waldgut, Frauenfeld 1987, ISBN 3-7294-0045-2 .
  • Sebastian Steiger: The children of La Hille Castle . Brunnen-Verlag, Basel 1992, ISBN 978-3-7655-1540-8 .
  • L'Académie des Droits de l'Homme: Un project en devenir. Editions du Tricorne, Geneva 2005, ISBN 2-8293-0278-8 . German translation: The academy: On the way to an academy of human rights - a life report. Sandkorn, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-9521036-1-6 .

literature

  • Ina Boesch. Borderline cases: Escape and help: five stories from Europe. Zurich: Limmat-Verlag, 2008.
  • Helena Kanyar Becker (ed.). Forgotten Women: Humanitarian Aid to Children and Official Refugee Policy 1917–1948. Basel: Schwabe-Verlag, 2010.
  • Victoria Cordier: Ce que je n'oublierai jamais. Journal d'une resident comtoise . Editions du Belvédère, Pontarlier Fleurier 2011, ISBN 978-2884191289 .
  • Patrick Cabanel: Histoire des Justes en France . Armand Colin, 2012, ISBN 978-2-200-35044-4 (including Victoria and Madeleine Cordier)
  • Serge Nessi: The Children's Aid of the Swiss Red Cross 1942–1945 and the role of the doctor Hugo Oltramare . Preface by Cornelio Sommaruga . Karolinger Verlag, Vienna / Leipzig 2013, ISBN 978-3-85418-147-7 (French original edition: Éditions Slatkine , Genève 2011, ISBN 978-2-8321-0458-3 ).

Movies

Web links

Coordinates: 46 ° 34 '  N , 6 ° 7'  E ; CH1903:  499004  /  157744

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Waldgut publishing house
  2. ↑ ajpn Chateau de Bellevue
  3. ↑ The children of La Hille Castle (1941-1945)
  4. ↑ Sebastian Steiger: The children of La Hille Castle
  5. ^ Archives for Contemporary History at the ETH Zurich: Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet estate
  6. ↑ Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
personal data
SURNAME In Hof-Piguet, Anne-Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Piguet, Anne-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss escape assistant and human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Martigny
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2010
Place of death Bern