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Anna Alboth (* 1984 in Warsaw) is a Polish journalist, blogger and political activist. is a Polish journalist, blogger and political activist. She gained international attention as the initiator of the Civil March for Aleppo - a peace march on foot from Berlin to Aleppo from December 2016 to August 2017. . Alboth was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for it in 2018.

In the summer of 2021, Alboth co-initiated Grupa Granica – a group of Polish human rights organizations that care for refugees on the Belarusian-Polish border.

and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for it in 2018. In the summer of 2021, Alboth co-initiated Grupa Granica - a group of Polish human rights organizations that care for refugees on the border between Belarus and Poland.

Life and career
Alboth went to school in Warsaw. In 2009 she finished her studies at the University of Warsaw. Already as as student journalist she started working at the Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.

In 2009, she and her husband Thomas Alboth launched the travel blog called The Family Without Borders, which won the National Geographic Poland's award »Travel Blog of the Year« in 2011. Publications in the Polish National Geographic and other travel magazines follow, as well as a travel book about Central America in 2016.

While living in Berlin in the times of the 2015 European migrant crisis, she uses the popularity of the travel blog and social media to collect in Poland sleeping bags and clothing for refugees waiting on the streets in Berlin for their asylum procedure. In December 2016, she initiates the Civil March for Aleppo for which she is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018.

Since 2018, she has been working for the human rights organization Minority Rights Group International. In the summer of 2021, she is a co-initiator and then a member of Grupa Granica.

She lives with her family in Berlin.

Publications

 * Anna Alboth: Rodzina bez granic w Ameryce Środkowej, Agora Verlag, Warschau 2016, ISBN 978-83- 268-2374- 9
 * Anna Alboth: Helping refugees starving in Poland’s icy border forests is illegal – but it’s not the real crime, in: The Guardian, 08.12.2021, ISSN 0261-3077