What is Ginetta Sagan?
{{Infobox person |name = Ginetta Sagan |image = |birth_name = Ginetta Moroni |birth_date = {{birth date|1925|06|25|mf=yes}} |birth_place = [[Milan]], Italy |death_date = {{death date and age |2000|8|25|1925|06|25|}} |death_place = [[Atherton, California|Atherton]], California, United States |spouse = Leonard Sagan (m. 1951–97) |children = 3 |organizations = [[Italian resistance movement]], [[Amnesty International]], Aurora Foundation |awards = [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]], ''[[Grand Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana]]'' }} '''Ginetta Sagan''' (June 1, 1925 – August 25, 2000) was an [[Italy|Italian]]-born [[Americans|American]] [[human rights]] [[Activism|activist]]. She is best known for her work with [[Amnesty International]] for [[prisoners of conscience]]. Sagan was born in [[Milan|Milan, Italy]]. When she was a [[teenager]], her parents died in the [[Black Brigades]] of [[Benito Mussolini]]. Like her parents, she was active in the [[Italian resistance movement]]. She gathered intelligence and supplied [[Jew|Jews]] during [[World War II]]. She was captured and [[Torture|tortured]] in 1945. Sagan escaped on the night before she was to be [[Execution|executed]]. After studying in [[Paris]], she attended [[graduate school]] in [[child development]] in the [[United States]]. She [[Marriage|married]] Leonard Sagan, a [[physician]], in 1951 . The couple moved to [[Atherton, California]]. In Atherton, Sagan founded the first chapter of Amnesty International in the [[western United States]]. She later helped to create more than 75 chapters of the organization. She also organized events to raise money for [[Political prisoner|political prisoners]]. In 1984, Sagan was elected the honorary chair of [[Amnesty International USA]]. [[President of the United States|US President]] [[Bill Clinton]] gave her the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] in 1996. Italy later awarded her the rank of ''[[Grand Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana]]'' (Grand Official [[Order of Merit]] of the