Background
At young age the daughter of Arnold Eckenstein-Marfort, merchant in Grellinger street in Basel, was already inspired by the wish to help others in need.
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Alice Eckenstein
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Career
Swiss rescuer of children in need in occupied Belgium during World War I.
Under the patronage of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) she established an office in Basel with the intention to repatriate children in need from occupied Belgium. Among the numerous documents and letters that passed through her hands, those of anxious parents got her attention. Even large groups of children made it out of occupied Belgium thanks to this courageous woman.
Her ashes are buried at the Wolfgottesacker cemetery in Basel.
Source: Basler Zeitung, 30. January 1980.
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Switzerland