Among the names Yad Vashem honours as Righteous Among the Nations is Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser.
The record lists Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser as Swiss humanitarian activist (1911–1995).
Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser was born at Rechthalten in 1911. Her recorded nationality is Switzerland.
By occupation Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser was diplomat, humanitarian and politician - which is the point worth holding onto: the rescuers were not a special class of person.
Yad Vashem's criteria are strict: the rescuer must have risked their life, liberty or position, and must have sought no payment. That is why the title carries the weight it does.
Recognition: Righteous Among the Nations (1978).
Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser died in 1995, aged 84. The people saved, and their descendants, are the part of the record that continues.
Achievements
- Righteous Among the Nations — 1978
- Worked as diplomat, humanitarian and politician
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