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Dangerous diplomacy : the story of Carl Lutz, rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews / Theo Tschuy ; foreword by Simon Wiesenthal.
LIBRA DS135.H9 T7713 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tschuy, Theo.
- Standardized Title:
- Carl Lutz und die Juden von Budapest. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Persecutions--Hungary.
- Jews.
- Jews--Persecutions.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- Diplomats.
- Hungary.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Hungary.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Lutz, Carl.
- Diplomats--Switzerland--Biography.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust--Hungary--Biography.
- Hungary--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Switzerland.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 265 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, Mich. ; Cambridge, U.K. : William B. Eerdmans, [2000]
- Summary:
- This volume tells for the first time the courageous story of Carl Lutz (1895P1975), the Swiss diplomat who single-handedly rescued 62,000 Jews from deportation to Nazis concentration camps, a daring action now recognized as the largest, most successful rescue effort ever undertaken in Nazi-dominated Europe.
- 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
- OCLC:
- 44802749
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