man who stopped the trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's finest hour
TitleThe man who stopped the trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's finest hour
Call number940.54779430924/0050
Object number05147
Place of publicationSyracuse, New York, United States
PublisherSyracuse University Press
Year of publication
2000
Physical description341p.,index,bibliography
MaterialBook
Series titleReligion, Theology and the Holocaust
ISBN0815606443
Description
This rescue was acomplished by George Mantello, a Jewish diplomat in the Salvadoran Consulate in Geneva with the help of a Romanian diplomat, several outstanding Swiss theologians, such as Carl Barth, Emil Brunner and Paul Vogt and virtually the entire Swiss population.
