UID:
edocfu_9960800306202883
Format:
1 online resource (405 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
3-8382-7089-4
Note:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Translators' Notes -- Editors' Notes -- Timeline -- 2. CARL LUTZ IN BUDAPEST -- Context and Milestones of the Rescue Activities of Carl Lutz and His Team -- 3. THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT -- "Carl Lutz stood out like a monument-He was an example of what can be done" -- "On the nineteenth of March 1944, all of us went underground" -- "We tried to save whoever we could, however we could" -- "Every moment, every slip of paper meant human life" -- 4. PROFILES OF SURVIVORS: INTERVIEWS BY AGNES HIRSCHI (2000-2017) -- "Klári, an Arrow Cross man is looking for you" -- "During the bombardments, we hid ourselves in the pantry" -- "Eva never spoke about her childhood" -- "She refused to let the star be sewn onto her clothing" -- "The Red Cross and the Swiss legation had retrieved us from a death march" -- "I will never forget the horrors of the war years" -- "The American air raid saved our lives" -- "I was too young to understand the situation" -- "In my breadbasket, I would smuggle letters for the prisoners" -- 5. TESTIMONIES -- "I did not give up trying to get to no. 29 Vadász utca" -- "I took the doll, [ ], and we started making our way home" -- "I was proud of the small yellow star" -- "Our skirts were filled with the money our wise grandmother had sewn into our hems" -- "The man who changed my life" -- "I remember it was a house built of glass" -- "Shmulik played the accordion and we all sang Hatikvah on the ship's deck" -- "My fate was the exception" -- "Unlike adults, I don't think we, the children, realized the situation was that of life and death" -- "The movement began to provide us with false documents" -- "I didn't know for what I was liberated. The only reason was my son" -- "We were the last ones to get inside the Glass House" -- "Arthur Weisz paid with his life for having saved us".
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"And suddenly they called me saying that my father came back" -- "To this day, I have not been able to understand how she managed to find my father's Kiddush cup" -- "On October 20, at five o'clock in the morning, my Holocaust began" -- "I had many Christian friends who came to our home -- all that changed on March 12, 1938, when the Nazis took over" -- "Our mother convinced us to stay with Aunt Hannah under Swiss protection" -- "We were forced out of the bunker with tear gas and shoved naked in the snow" -- "The last time I saw my mother" -- 6. TRIBUTES AND LETTERS -- "Remembering 1944 and Carl Lutz" -- "We were left with what is the most precious: our lives" -- "Tribute to Carl Lutz" -- Letter to Carl Lutz (1945) A Handwritten Letter of Thanks from Geoffrey Tier -- "Diplomats are not expected to be heroes taking risks" -- 7. APPENDIX: EXCERPTS FROM SWISS COLLECTIVE PASSPORTS NO. 1 & -- NO. 2 -- GLOSSARY.
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In English, Hebrew and Hungarian.
Language:
English
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