Germaine Suter-Morax (26 July 1896 – 27 July 1974) was a Swiss-French Resistance member.
She was Secretary general of the Swiss Aid Committee of the National Association of Former Deportees and Internees of the Resistance. In 1947, she contributed to the reception and convalescence of 500 women in nine houses in French-speaking Switzerland, working with Geneviève de Gaulle.
Life
editAfter attending the girls' gymnasium in Lausanne, Germaine Suter-Morax studied at the University of Lausanne, where she obtained a degree in political science in 1918.[1]
She is in charge of the Vestiaire-Ouvroir SOS in Lausanne. She also welcomed groups of children for stays of a few weeks in Switzerland, in convoys organized in Lyon by her sister Florence Morax, as part of the Swiss Red Cross' Children's Aid.[1]
In January 1940, co-founded the Children's Library of Lausanne, with Nicolas Roubakine, Adolphe Ferrière, and Elisabeth Clerc, holding the position of treasurer until the mid-1960s.[1]
Beginning in the summer of 1945, she was secretary general of the Swiss Aid Committee of the National Association of Former Deportees and Internees of the Resistance (ADIR).[2] Until the spring of 1947, the association took care of the convalescence of nearly 500 women in nine shelters in French-speaking Switzerland. She collaborated with Geneviève de Gaulle,[3] to organise multiple conferences in order to finance this aid, which also benefited from the support of the Swiss Donation for the victims of war.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Suter-Morax, Germaine". hls-dhs-dss.ch (in French). 2023-10-02. Retrieved 2024-09-19.
- ^ "Initiatives de déportés | Lutetia, 1945 – Le retour des déportés" (in French). Retrieved 2024-09-19.
- ^ Pecassou-Camebrac, Bernadette (2019-03-13). Geneviève de Gaulle, les yeux ouverts (in French). Calmann-Lévy. ISBN 978-2-7021-6213-2.
- ^ "Plaque en souvenir des déportées". www.laliberte.ch (in French). 2 June 2016. Retrieved 2024-09-19.