Under Swiss Protection
Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest
This volume retraces Carl Lutz's diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Harald Feller, Ernst Vonrufs, Peter Zürcher, and the underground Zionist Youth Movement, Carl Lutz led an extensive rescue operation between March 1944 and February 1945. It is estimated that Lutz and his team of rescuers issued more than 50,000 lifesaving letters of protection (Schutzbriefe) and placed persecuted Jews in 76 safe houses-annexes of the Swiss Legation. Based…
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Weitere Autoren: Schallié, Charlotte (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-8382-7089-0
- EAN: 9783838270890
- Produktnummer: 31871748
- Verlag: ibidem
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 16'913 KB
- Auflage: Auflage
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Edited by Agnes Hirschi and Charlotte Schallié. Foreword by Timothy Snyder
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Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest
Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest
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