Ingrid Segerstedt-Wiberg
/Overview
Ingrid Segerstedt-Wiberg born Lund, Sweden June 18, 1911 (d. 2010). Swedish internationalist journalist; 12-year member of parliament 1958-70 quit when party wanted to join NATO; anti-Nazi; biographer of Hammarskjöld; headed Swedish UN Association; defended refugees; won suit in European Court of Human Rights against her government for US spying, 2006.
Quotations
"During the war I myself was involved in helping refugees. . . it was no easy task." (Guido Knopp, Hitler's Women, p. 248, 2003; photo sverigesradio.se)