Under Swiss Protection: Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest

by Timothy Snyder

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 Z rcher, and the underground Zionist Youth Movement, Carl Lutz led an extensive rescue operation between March 1944 and February 1945. It...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 383821109X
• ISBN13: 9783838211091
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Ibidem Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.2"