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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Diana Budisavljević

1891 - 1978

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Diana Budisavljević (née Obexer; 15 January 1891 – 20 August 1978) was an Austrian humanitarian who led a major relief effort in Yugoslavia during World War II. From October 1941, on her initiative and involving many co-workers, she organized and provided assistance to mostly Serbian Orthodox women and children detained in the Ustaše camps in the Independent State of Croatia, a Nazi puppet state established in occupied Yugoslavia. The operation, known as "Action Diana Budisavljević", succeeded in saving around 10,000 children. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diana Budisavljević has received more than 141,069 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Diana Budisavljević is the 290th most popular social activist (down from 231st in 2019), the 568th most popular biography from Austria (down from 484th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Austrian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Diana Budisavljević ranks 290 out of 538Before her are Russell Means, Policarpa Salavarrieta, Cho Man-sik, Cut Nyak Dhien, Meshadi Azizbekov, and Allan Octavian Hume. After her are Dhondo Keshav Karve, Emmett Till, Abdallah ibn Yasin, Bhikaiji Cama, Kōtoku Shūsui, and Ricardo Flores Magón.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Diana Budisavljević ranks 110Before her are Jan Mukařovský, Milton L. Humason, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Pavlo Tychyna, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, and Pedro Salinas. After her are Pietro Nenni, Oskar Kummetz, Zdeněk Fierlinger, Juan Yagüe, Emiliano Mercado del Toro, and Alfred Neubauer. Among people deceased in 1978, Diana Budisavljević ranks 99Before her are Lucius D. Clay, Armin T. Wegner, Gig Young, Jacques Brugnon, Hans Stuck, and Viggo Brun. After her are Luigi Allemandi, Harold Abrahams, Raúl Alberto Lastiri, Roy Harrod, Henryk Zygalski, and Carlos Chávez.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Diana Budisavljević ranks 568 out of 1,237Before her are Annemarie Moser-Pröll (1953), Peter Habeler (1942), Inge Morath (1923), Joseph Marx (1882), Jörg Demus (1928), and Theodore Romzha (1911). After her are Ernst Ocwirk (1926), Josef Krips (1902), Ingrid Haebler (1926), Erich Fried (1921), Maria Wodzińska (1819), and Michael Mayr (1864).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Austria

Among social activists born in Austria, Diana Budisavljević ranks 4Before her are Alfred Hermann Fried (1864), Maria Altmann (1916), and Bertha Pappenheim (1859).