Idy Hegnauer

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Idy Hegnauer (1950)

Idy Hegnauer (born September 12, 1909 as Ida Häberling in Obfelden ; died November 19, 2006 in Affoltern am Albis ) was a Swiss nurse and peace activist .

Life

Hegnauer was a Quaker and a member of the Socialist Youth . She attended the women's social school in Zurich.

In 1937, Hegnauer volunteered for a humanitarian mission from the Service Civil International (SCI) in Valencia . She took care of the budget for volunteers from all over Europe who trucked refugees to safety from the Spanish Civil War . During the assignment, she met her future husband Ralph Hegnauer (1910–1997).

She remained loyal to humanitarian aid in the following decades, also in war zones. With the Service Civil International she did a service in Gaza and Israel from 1948 to 1950 . With her husband, she helped the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) with the distribution of goods to refugees as part of the UN refugee aid program. In 1950 and 1951 she worked in India and Pakistan. At the end of the 1950s, she organized a donation campaign in Switzerland for Algerian refugee children who fled the war of independence to Tunisia and Morocco, and set up several homes.

From 1980 to 1984 she worked in the children's hospital in Affoltern am Albis. For the Service Civil International she was represented in the committee of the Swiss Refugee Aid. In the last few years of her life she wrote an autobiography.

Works

  • Life writes stories . Service Civil International 2001.
  • Laura: Youth Memories, 1914-1927 . B. Furrer 2006.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Philipp Rodriguez: Idy Hegnauer - Archives of Service Civil International. Retrieved July 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c Antonia Schmidlin: Hegnauer, Ida. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 29, 2007 , accessed February 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ Nancy Gallagher: Quakers in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Dilemmas of NGO Humanitarian Activism . American Univ in Cairo Press, 2007, p. 144 .
personal data
SURNAME Hegnauer, Idy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Häberling, Idy (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss nurse and peace activist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Obfelden
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 2006
Place of death Affoltern am Albis