Anna Alboth Explained

Anna Alboth is a Polish journalist, blogger and political activist. She gained international attention as the initiator of the Civil March for Aleppo—a peace march on foot from Berlin to Aleppo from December 2016 to August 2017,^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} for which she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018.^[6]

In the summer of 2021, Alboth co-initiated Grupa Granica—a group of Polish human rights organizations that care for refugees on the Belarusian–Polish border.^{[7] [8] [9]}

Life and career

Alboth went to school in Warsaw. In 2009 she finished her studies at the University of Warsaw. As student journalist she started working at the Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

In 2009, she and her husband Thomas Alboth launched the travel blog The Family Without Borders, which won National Geographic Poland's "Travel Blog of the Year" in 2011.^{[10] [11]} Publications in the Polish National Geographic and other travel magazines followed, as well as a travel book about Central America in 2016.

While living in Berlin in the times of the 2015 European migrant crisis, she used the popularity of the travel blog and social media to collect sleeping bags in Poland and clothing for refugees waiting on the streets in Berlin for their asylum procedure. In December 2016, she initiated the Civil March for Aleppo,^[12] for which she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018.^[13]

Since 2018, she has been working for the human rights organization Minority Rights Group International.^[14] In the summer of 2021, she was a co-initiator and then a member of Grupa Granica.^{[15] [16]}

She lives with her family in Berlin.^[17]

Publications

• Rodzina bez granic w Ameryce Środkowej. Warsaw: Agora, 2016. .^[18]

References

1. Book: The woman walking to Aleppo to 'end the Syrian war'. 2016-12-23. BBC.
2. Web site: A Suicidal Civil March to Aleppo?. 2016-12-09. thedailybeast.com.
3. Web site: Aleppo: Marsch für den Frieden. 2021-01-29. 2017-07-19. Zeit.
4. Book: Civil March for Aleppo: Warum junge Menschen von Berlin nach Aleppo laufen. 2017-01-08. 2195-1349. Spiegel.
5. Book: Der Civil March ist angekommen. 2017-08-13. 1865-2263. tagesspiegel.de.
6. Web site: Polish entrepreneur who 'marched for Syrian refugees' nominated for Nobel prize. 2022-01-29. thefirstnews.com.
7. Web site: Poland-Belarus crisis volunteers: 'Border police can be very aggressive'. 2022-01-29. 2021-11-10. The Guardian.
8. Book: An der belarussisch-polnischen Grenze: "Zu helfen gilt heutzutage in diesem Land als 'illegaler Akt'". 2021-10-24. Welt.
9. Web site: Europa – "Mauern trennen, sie schützen nicht" – Kritik an Polens Bau einer Grenzanlage zu Belarus. 2022-01-29. de. deutschlandfunk.de. 2022-01-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20220128085145/https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/mauern-trennen-sie-schuetzen-nicht-kritik-an-polens-bau-einer-grenzanlage-zu-belarus-102.html. dead.
10. Web site: Yes, we made it: Traveler 2011 is ours! The Family Without Borders. 2022-01-29. 2012-05-03. thefamilywithoutborders.com.
11. Web site: A Family Without Borders Travels the World with Two Young Daughters. 2022-01-29. wandrlymagazine.com.
12. Web site: Friedensaktivistin Anna Alboth – Wer ist die Frau, die nach Aleppo will?. 2022-01-29. de. deutschlandfunkkultur.de.
13. Web site: Initiative spearheaded by Pole nominated for Nobel Peace Prize – Telewizja Polska SA. 2022-01-29. tvp.pl.
14. Web site: Helping refugees starving in Poland's icy border forests is illegal – but it's not the real crime Anna Alboth. 2022-01-29. Anna Alboth. 2021-12-08. The Guardian.
15. Web site: Volunteers providing humanitarian emergency aid. 2022-01-29. 2021-12-22. thenewhumanitarian.org.
16. Web site: Poland starts building wall through protected forest at Belarus border. 2022-01-29. 2022-01-27. The Guardian.
17. Web site: Solidarity march readies for Berlin-Aleppo trek. 2022-01-24. Agnieszka Hreczuk. 2016-12-22. Deutsche Welle.
18. Web site: Inicjatywa Polki nominowana do Pokojowej Nagrody Nobla!. 2022-01-29. pl-PL. Elle.