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It’s about the most honored representattive of Dutch women’s suffrage in The Netherlands: Aletta Jacobs. A surprise find of a film, a 20 sec. clip, she is seen with Miss Jane Addams of Chicago walking togerther near the Brandenburger Tor in Berlin. Miss Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 1931.
- Laura) Jane Addams (September 6, 1860-May 21, 1935) won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist. She was born in Cedarville, Illinois, the eighth of nine children. Her father was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War; he was a friend of Abraham Lincoln whose letters to him began «My Dear Double D-‘ed Addams».
Miss Jane Addams of Chicago leads party of 39 women to attend peace meeting in The Hague
YouTube film – Meet Miss Jane Addams of Chicago in Berlin (1915).
On the left is American, Jane Addams, co-founder of Hull House, in Chicago, and President of the newly formed Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In the middle is Gertrud Baumer, founder of the German National Women's Service that coordinated food supply and women's voluntary efforts during the war. The third woman is Dutch pacifist, feminist and suffragist Aletta Jacobs, also involved with founding of the WILPF.
(Note: Film shot by photographer William H. Durborough)
Translated from German by Google:
Against the War: Courageous pacifists middle of a war frenzy
Amazing and very courageous women, read the article!
