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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]
Discover the extraordinary story of Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat who organized the largest Jewish rescue operation in Budapest.
Jul 23, 2018 · Carl Lutz managed to save half of Budapest's Jewish population by exploiting the Nazi's respect for paperwork.
Carl Lutz, a diplomat stationed in Hungary, led the largest diplomatic rescue operation of World War II. A look back at a personality who is still too little known.
Charles "Carl" Lutz, born March 30, 1895, in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, was a Swiss diplomat who saved thousands of Jews in Hungary. Lutz arrived in Budapest in January 1942 to serve as Switzerland’s vice-consul, and was put in charge of representing the Unites States, Great Britain, and other countries that had cut off ties with Hungary.
Feb 9, 2019 · This courageous diplomat was a Swiss version of Oskar Schindler. During his tenure as Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, he helped close to 10,000 Jewish children emigrate from Nazi-occupied Hungry. He saved over 62,000 Jews in total.
Discover the incredible story of Carl Lutz, the Swiss diplomat who saved thousands of Jews during World War II. Learn more about his life and legacy.
Sep 26, 2021 · Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was the first neutral diplomat in Budapest to rescue Jews. He is credited with inventing the Schutzbrief (protective letter) for Jewish refugees in Budapest. After March 19, 1944, the Germans occupied Hungary and the new government of Döme Sztojay closed the Hungarian borders to Jewish emigration.
Feb 8, 2023 · Born into a devout, pacifist, and humanitarian Methodist family in Walzenhausen, Switzerland, Lutz (1895-1975) was raised in a puritanical community which, according to many historians, is...
Jan 27, 2020 · Carl Lutz was responsible for the largest civilian rescue mission of the entire Holocaust. And yet his story is unknown to most of us. Lutz was head of the Section for Foreign Interests in the Swiss Embassy in Hungary.
Apr 6, 2024 · The Swiss Vice-Consul Carl Lutz, in charge of foreign interests and visas at the Swiss Embassy in Budapest 1942-45, issued tens of thousands of protective letters ("Schutzbriefe") for Hungarian Jews, documents the Nazi officials only reluctantly recognised.
March 1944 – When the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944, the persecution of Jews in Hungary began. Appalled by these actions, Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat stationed in Budapest, began to do everything he could to help save Jews.
Jan 1, 2000 · A stirring biography of courage in the face of evil chronicles the life of Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat who saved 62,000 Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis.
- Theo Tschuy, Simon Wiesenthal
Carl Lutz devised a diplomatic-humanitarian protection system consisting in the issuing of multiple copies of 8,000 individually numbered letters of protection to Jews who were no longer allowed to travel to Palestine.
Swiss diplomat. Carl Lutz was born in Walzenhausen, a mountain village in south-eastern Switzerland, whose inhabitants formed a sort of autonomous community of cattle breeders and farmers. His mother taught religion in the Methodist chapel on Sundays, while his father owned a small marble quarry.
Jan 4, 2018 · The forgotten Swiss diplomat who rescued thousands from Holocaust. 4 January 2018. Archiv für Zeitgeschichte, ETH Zurich. Carl Lutz in Budapest after arrival of the Russians. A Swiss diplomat...
Carl Robert Lutz (* 30. März 1895 in Walzenhausen; † 12. Februar 1975 in Bern) war ein Schweizer Diplomat, der die grösste Rettung von Juden während des Zweiten Weltkriegs durchführte. Zusammen mit Widerstandskämpfern gelang es Carl Lutz, insgesamt 62'000 ungarische Juden zu retten.
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.
ABOUT CARL LUTZ. I t is estimated that tens of thousands of Jewish men, women and children were saved from certain death in Budapest by the Swiss Righteous Carl Lutz, his wife Gertrud Lutz and his colleagues Harald Feller, Peter Zürcher and Ernst Vonrufs. This is the largest diplomatic rescue operation of WWII.
The Carl Lutz Society was invited to speak about the legacy of Carl Lutz and the evolution of his perception in Switzerland on the occasion of the academic conference “Choice to rescue”, organized in Warsaw by the Witold Pilecki Institute, under the patronage of the President of Poland.
L’engagement humaniste de Carl Lutz a une portée qui dépasse le simple évènement historique. Il est source de réflexion et d’engagement ; il incarne des valeurs et un courage d’une brûlante actualité.
Oct 6, 2011 · 1939 - 1968. Carl Lutz was born on April 13, 1939, and died at age 29 years old in December 1968. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Carl Lutz.
