The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour

by David Kranzler

Book Overview

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. Armed with this information, prominent Swiss church leaders and theologians condemned the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815628730
• ISBN13: 9780815628736
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"