Under Swiss Protection: Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest

David Gur

ISBN 10: 3838210891 / ISBN 13: 9783838210896

Published by Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Under Swiss Protection: Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest
• Publisher: Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3838210891
• ISBN 13: 9783838210896
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 17.1W x 0.2H x 26.7D centimeters 17.1 centimeters width by 0.2 centimeters height by 26.7 centimeters depth
• Weight: 64 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.