Marcel Junod (May 14, 1904 - June 16, 1961) was a Swiss doctor and one of the most accomplished field delegates in the history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). After medical school and a short position as a surgeon in Mulhouse, France, he became an ICRC delegate and was deployed in Ethiopia during the Abyssinian war, in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, and in Europe as well as in Japan during World War II. In 1947, … Wikipedia
Born in Neuchtel, Switzerland, on 14 May 1904, Marcel was the fifth of six children born to Pastor Richard Junod and his wife Jeanne. www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/photos_Marcel_Juno...
Through Dr Junod's narrative, the reader discovers the difficult and sometimes dangerous, but always fascinating, work of an ICRC delegate. www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList524/6C6B8477822D...
Pastor R. S. Junod and their 7 children His father started his pastoral work preaching in villages of miners in Belgium, sent there by the Independent Protestant Church of Neuchtel. www.junod.ch/en/marcel_junod_eng.shtml
He fought off looters with his bare hands as Addis Ababa fell to Italian forces, bargained the exchange of hostages in Spain's civil war, was arrested by the Gestapo in Berlin as a spy and became the first foreign doctor to help atom bomb victims at Hiros www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList96/11D5CB05B331A...
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Marcel Junod. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Junod
