Title: The man who stopped the trains to Auschwitz
First published: 2000
Description: Kranzler documents the efforts of George Mantello, a Salvadoran diplomat posted to Switzerland, to save the Jews of Budapest from deportation to Auschwitz. He sparked public protest throughout Switzerland and the world that saved more than 140,000 people.
Subjects: Diplomats, Jews, El Salvador, Ethnic relations, World War, 1939-1945, Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust, Rescue, Biography
Places: Switzerland, Hungary
People: George Mantello
LC classification: F 1497 J48 M365 2000