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Dangerous diplomacy : the story of Carl Lutz, rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews

Title: Dangerous diplomacy : the story of Carl Lutz, rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews / Theo Tschuy ; foreword by Simon Wiesenthal.
Author: Tschuy, Theo.
Publication: Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

xiv, 265 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Dangerous Diplomacy tells for the first time the story of Carl Lutz (1895-1975), the Swiss diplomat who single-handedly rescued 62,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps - a dating action now recognized as the largest, most successful rescue effort ever undertaken in Nazi-dominated Europe."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Carl Lutz und die Juden von Budapest. English

Alternative Title

Carl Lutz und die Juden von Budapest.

Subjects

Hungary > Ethnic relations
Diplomats > Switzerland > Biography
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust > Hungary > Biography
Jews > Persecutions > Hungary
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue > Hungary
Lutz, Carl
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Hungary

Contents

Foreword / Simon Wiesenthal -- 1. The Forged Passport -- 2. The Confrontation -- 3. The Emigration Department of the Swiss Legation -- 4. The Terrible Secret -- 5. Can Auschwitz Be Stopped? -- 6. Journey to Bistriza -- 7. The Fuhrer's Wish -- 8. Arrow Cross Terror -- 9. "Eichmann Has Fled!" -- 10. The Last Assault -- Meldegg -- Glossary of Non-English Words.

ISBN

0802839053 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00063626

OCLC

ocm44802749
SCSB-4017741

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Columbia University Libraries