George Mantello

George Mandel - Mantello (* 1902 in Bistrita, Transylvania, † April 25, 1992 in Rome) was 1942-1945 First Secretary Consul of the Republic of El Salvador in Geneva.

The textile manufacturer Gyorgy Mandl 1938 was the annexation of Austria in Vienna in 1939 with the occupation of the Resttschechei he was in Prague, he knew what the Nazis were capable of, so he devoted himself to rescuing Jews from the Holocaust. Gyorgy Mandl was Attaché of Charles II of Romania at the Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy. In 1939 he participated in the Salvadoran citizenship and was in the Salvadoran Consulate active in Bucharest.

The part of Romania, in which lived Gyorgy Mandl's family was from August 30, 1940, Hitler's Second Vienna Award suddenly to Hungary. The end of 1941 was almond - Mantello in Bucharest. El Salvador broke off relations with Romania, and Mandl had to leave Hungary. Mandl was arrested by the Gestapo in Rijeka, he was in Zagreb a few months in captivity. About Bucharest he managed to escape to Geneva.

First Secretary of the consul

In August 1942, he was the consul of El Salvador Arturo Castellanos asylum and the name George Mandel - Mantello. With the approval of the Government of El Salvador presented as almond Honorary Consul of El Salvador toll-free in about 10,000 nationality certificates for El Salvador. With these Nationality certificates could not be traveling as with passports, but they served as protection letters of ICRC. Because the Republic of El Salvador in Hungary had no representation, the Salvadoran government inquired on 4 July 1944 the Swiss government, whether the Salvadorans can be represented by the Swiss Consulate in Budapest. Following approval by the Swiss government of the Salvadoran Minister of Foreign Affairs sent the following telegram: "To His Excellency Minister Marcel Pilet- Golaz, Federal Councillor, Head of the Federal Office in Bern, we are grateful for the generous homage, the citizens of El Salvador in legal and with regard to private interests in Hungary to represent. " Later, many of blank certificates were sent to Budapest, where the Swiss Vice-Consul Carl Lutz, for thousands of Jews protection in an abandoned glass factory organized.

Publication of the operations at Auschwitz

Mantello received about the Romanian Embassy in Bern, Florian Manoliu, an abridged version of the Vrba - Wetzler report, which reported in detail on the operations at Auschwitz, by Miklós ( Moshe ) Krausz, the representative of the Jewish Agency in Budapest, together with a memorandum ghettoisation and deportation of Jews in some parts of Hungary on 19 June 1944. Mantello acted independently of the Swiss and international Jewish organizations, he distributed the material to leading Swiss religious leaders, politicians, academics and journalists obtained by Krausz. The Hungarian-speaking secretary of Walter Garret, the Zurich correspondent of The Exchange Telegraph Co. Ltd.. , The documents translated into English. This public relations in 1944 Mantello tried to stop the forced by Adolf Eichmann deportation of Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz. The publication led to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gustav V (Sweden) and the Nuncio Angelo Rotta on behalf of Pius XII. championed the Hungarian Jews at Miklós Horthy. Mantello convinced the King of Sweden, Raoul Wallenberg to send to Hungary, to create extraterritorial facilities for the Jews with Swedish passports.

Swell

  • Person ( Jewish savior )
  • Nazi victims
  • Honorary Consul
  • Salvadorans
  • Born in 1902
  • Died in 1992
  • Man
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