Elsbeth Kasser

[4] Through one of her relatives, she was introduced to Regina Kägi-Fuchsmann (1889–1972), who was mobilizing humanitarian aid for Spain, which was defeated during the Spanish Civil War.

In 1940 she was sent to the Gurs internment camp, which housed around 15,000 Spanish refugees and more than 6,000 Jewish deportees from Germany, by Maurice Dubois, who was the director of the Secours Suisse aux Enfants, a part of the Swiss Red Cross.

She also organized educational and cultural activities for the inmates with help of a group of artists who include Leo Bauer, Max Lingner, Julius Collen Turner and Horst Rosenthal.

She represented the Swiss Red Cross at the executive committee of a national level Children's Aid organization in Switzerland.

[12] Kasser's collections of inmates art that include drawings, watercolors and photographs were donated to the Skovgaard Museum, Denmark in 1986.