"On his deathbed, my stepfather, Carl Lutz, asked me to make sure that his work would not be forgotten. During World War II, my stepfather was in Budapest, where he saved tens of thousands of persecuted Jews with Swiss letters of safe conduct"
Born in London in 1938, Agnes Hirschi and her mother, who were under threat, lived in Budapest during the war under the protection of the diplomat from Appenzell Carl Lutz, who was deputy consul at the Swiss Embassy. Her mother married Carl Lutz later on. Agnes Hirschi worked as a journalist; she is a widow, has two sons and a granddaughter.