Marcel Junod (1904-1961): the Red Cross doctor who personified "the spirit of the thing"
15-06-2011 Photo gallery
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16 June 1961 – 16 June 2011
On 16 June 1961, a heart attack cruelly and abruptly ended the life of Marcel Junod, a Swiss doctor who had been at the front of humanitarian action in Europe, Africa and the Far East from the mid-1930s to the end of the Second World War. He was the first foreign doctor to visit Hiroshima after the devastating nuclear attack by the United States on 6 August 1945.
