Elsa Brändström (March 26, 1888 – March 4, 1948), born in St. Petersburg, was the daughter of General Edvard Brändström, the Swedish Ambassador to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia during World War I. She was known as "the Angel of Siberia" for her ministrations to German prisoners of war during that war. March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... The Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: Konungariket Sverige  listen) is a Nordic country in Scandinavia, in Northern Europe. ... Tsar Nicholas II ( 18 May 1868 – 17 July 1918)1 was the last crowned Emperor of Russia. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

Gazing down from the window of the Embassy in St. Petersburg, Russia, onto German prisoners of war on their way to the frozen tundra of Siberia, Brändström was moved to leave the luxury of diplomatic life and became a nurse. She ministered to the prisoners of war in Siberia, in part privately and in part as a delegate of the Swedish Red Cross and with the protection of the Swedish and Danish embassy authorities. The prisoners of war benefited tremendously and named her The Angel of Siberia. Siberian federal subjects of Russia Siberia ( Russian: Сиби́рь, common English transliterations: Sibir, Sibir; possibly from the Mongolian for the calm land) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ... A nurse is a health care professional, who is engaged in the practice of nursing. ... The Kingdom of Denmark is geographically the smallest Nordic country and is part of the European Union. ...

After the war, she attended the orphans of the German soldiers who had been killed, and Russian prisoners of war. She married Robert Uhlig, and moved to Germany where she served among the destitute. When Hitler rose to power, Elsa and her husband were forced to flee from Germany and came to America, where she and her husband offered care to European refugees. Power lines leading to a trash dump hover just overhead in El Carpio, a Nicaraguan refugee camp in Costa Rica Under international law, a refugee is a person who is outside his/her country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of persecution because of his/her...

Her husband took up teaching at Harvard University. She died in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Harvard Square, May 2000 Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area in Massachusetts, United States. ...