Dangerous Diplomacy
Subtitle: The Story of Carl Lutz, Rescuer of 62,000 Hungarian Jews
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780802839053
Subjects: Jewish Holocaust; Persecutions; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Religion; Biography / Autobiography; Judaism - History; Biography/Autobiography; Jews; Hungary; Historical - Holocaust; Political; Biography: general; Europe; Warfare & Defence; Rescue; General; Holocaust; World War, 1939-1945
First sentence: On Sunday, March 19, 1944, Rafi (Raphael) Friedl, a young eighteen-year-old Slovak Jew, alias Janos Sampias, a Catholic Christian, had every reason to fear for his life.
Description: "Dangerous Diplomacy tells for the first time the story of Carl Lutz (1895-1975), the Swiss diplomat who single-handedly rescued 62,000 Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps - a dating action now recognized as the largest, most successful rescue effort ever undertaken in Nazi-dominated Europe."--BOOK JACKET.