Research Catalog

Title

Under Swiss protection : Jewish eyewitness accounts from wartime Budapest / Agnes Hirschi, Charlotte Schallié, (eds) ; translations by Dahlia Beck, Lauren Thompson, and Noga Yarmar.

Publication

• Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2017]
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

• Hirschi, Agnes
• Schallié, Charlotte
• Beck, Dahlia
• Thompson, Lauren
• Yarmar, Noga

Description

403 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"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"--Back cover.

Subject

• Lutz, Carl
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Hungary > Budapest > Personal narratives
• World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Hungary > Budapest > Personal narratives
• Jews > Persecutions > Hungary > Budapest
• World War, 1939-1945 > Hungary > Budapest
• Holocaust survivors > Interviews
• Budapest (Hungary) > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Includes translations from Hebrew and Hungarian into English.

Call Number

JFD 18-2206

ISBN

• 383821109X
• 9783838211091
• 3838210891
• 9783838210896

LCCN

2017468697

OCLC

987774763

Title

Under Swiss protection : Jewish eyewitness accounts from wartime Budapest / Agnes Hirschi, Charlotte Schallié, (eds) ; translations by Dahlia Beck, Lauren Thompson, and Noga Yarmar.

Publisher

Stuttgart : Ibidem-Verlag, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

Includes translations from Hebrew and Hungarian into English.

Added Author

Hirschi, Agnes, editor.

Schallié, Charlotte, editor.

Beck, Dahlia, translator.

Thompson, Lauren, translator.

Yarmar, Noga, translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 18-2206