
Under Swiss Protection
Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest
ibidem (Publisher)
Published on 30. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
416 pages
978-3-8382-1089-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 on interviews with Holocaust survivors in Canada, Hungary, Israel, Switzerland, the UK, and the United States, this volume shines a light on the extraordinary scope and scale of Carl Lutz's humanitarian response.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Hannover
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
521 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-8382-1089-6 (9783838210896)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions

Agnes Hirschi | Charlotte Schallie
Under Swiss Protection
Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest
E-Book
11/2017
ibidem
€15.99
Available for download

Agnes Hirschi | Charlotte Schallie
Under Swiss Protection
Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest
E-Book
11/2017
ibidem
€15.99
Available for download
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Editor
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Contributions
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ISNI: 0000 0003 8542 7646
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Foreword
Timothy Snyder is the Levin Professor of History and Global Affairs at Yale University and the author of a number of books, including Bloodlands, The Road to Unfreedom, and the forthcoming On Freedom.
Translation