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Death and recognition
Sanz Briz died on 11 June 1980 in Rome.In 1991, he was recognized by the Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem of the State of Israel, who gave his family the title of Righteous Among the Nations. In 1994 the Government of Hungary gave him the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.
In 2015, a Budapest street was renamed in his honor, as Angel Sanz Briz Avenue.In 2023, there was a controversy in Spain when a motion to commemorate Angel Sanz Briz was rejected in the Spanish Congress because of his involvement in the Franco regime.
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