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Jul 23, 2018 · Carl Lutz and his first wife, Gertrud Fankhauser, circa 1943. “For these people it was the last glimmer of hope, for us, this…was the worst form of spiritual torture,” Lutz later ...
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Nov 30, 2023 · Carl Lutz was a Swiss diplomat responsible for saving between 30,000 and 50,000 Hungarian Jews during World War II. He made the decision to become a diplomat...
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Ukrainian. v. t. e. Carl Lutz (30 March 1895 – 12 February 1975) was a Swiss diplomat. He served as the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary, from 1942 until the end of World War II. He is credited with saving over 62,000 Jews during the Second World War in a very large rescue operation. [1] [2] Due to his actions, half of the Jewish ...
Until the fall of 1944, when the fascist Arrow Cross Party took power, Carl Lutz worked with the support of his wife Gertrud. He even hid Jews in his black Packard and participated in the columns forced to march to the Austrian border. In total, more than half a million Hungarian Jews perished, 120,000 survived.
Jan 4, 2018 · Archiv für Zeitgeschichte, ETH Zurich. Carl Lutz in Budapest after arrival of the Russians. A Swiss diplomat has been credited with leading the largest civilian rescue operation of World War Two ...
