Avi Ohry
Tel Aviv, Israel
Pauline Chaponnière-Chaix (1850–1934) was a nurse and activist born in Geneva, Switzerland. After her husband died, she went to Paris to join the House of Deaconesses of Reuilly, a Protestant religious community founded in 1841 that provided outreach to the poor. Chaponnière-Chaix worked with children whose parents were in prison or in other serious situations. Later, she ran a boarding school for young women in Versailles and established nursing training courses. When her health forced to retire from her work in France, she returned to Switzerland and continued work as a feminist activist and suffragette. After World War I, she worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross, and later served as president of the International Council of Women.
References
- “Pauline Chaponnière née Chaix.” Bibliothèque de Genève. http://bge-geneve.ch/iconographie/personne/pauline-chaponniere-nee-chaix
- Scholl, Sarah. “Pauline Chaponnière-Chaix.” 100Elles. https://100elles.ch/biographies/pauline-chaponniere-chaix/
AVI OHRY, MD, is married with two daughters. He is Emeritus Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Tel Aviv University, the former director of Rehabilitation Medicine at Reuth Medical and Rehabilitation Center in Tel Aviv, and a member of The Lancet‘s Commission on Medicine & the Holocaust. He conducts award-winning research in neurological rehabilitation, bioethics, medical humanities and history, and on long-term effects of disability and captivity. He plays the drums with a jazz band.