[2] The families home, the "Little Appletree" was situated in an orchard and had a central heating and running water in all bed chambers which was very modern for the time.
[1] Following, she worked for three years in the psychiatric hospital Bürghölzli in Zürich after which she presented her doctoral dissertation in 1937.
[1] During World War II and on behalf of the Swiss Red Cross, Marie Meierhofer cared for war-affected children in Cruseilles in 1942/43 and in Caen in 1945, both in France.
[2] At that time, she encountered the nurseries and orphanages she wanted to build and was not satisfied with how the children were treated.
[2] After she resigned from her job in Zurich and upon invitation by the UNESCO followed up on her studies in France and the United States.
She had two younger sisters called Emmi and Albertine but lost her brother Robert through death at the age of eight.