Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour Kranzler David
Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour Kranzler David Winner of the Egit Prize (Histadrut) for the Best Manuscript on the…
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Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour Kranzler David
Winner of the Egit Prize (Histadrut) for the Best Manuscript on the Holocaust.George Mantello, First Secretary of the El Salvador Consulate in Geneva from 1942 to 1945, defied strict censorship to launch a press campaign against the daily deportation of 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz.This is the true story of one man's efforts to bring horrific news of the Nazi genocide to the Swiss public and to the rest of the world. In 400 articles appearing in 120 newspapers, Mantello reached opinion makers throughout the world community. Armed with this information, prominent Swiss church leaders and theologians condemned the unfolding Holocaust from their pulpits, spurring large public demonstrations.
In addition to International pressure halted the Hungarian deportations, and Mantello distributed thousands of Salvadoran citizenship papers to Jews in Nazi-occupied territories.
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