Aline Boccardo

Overview

Aline Boccardo-Zolondek born Danzig Free State February 17, 1920 (d. 2015). Swiss peace activist. Founded Women for Peace, Lucerne, 1977. Undertook week’s peace fast, Geneva, 1978. Sent UN petition of 18,000 signatures for nuclear disarmament.

Quotations

All the mockery, defamation and insults, Aline Boccardo as a peace activist forgives. . . and wishes all those who harm me nothing bad. But in the next life I will never see them again." (“Wie kluge Frauen alt warden”, Witzig; photo abeboks)