man who stopped the trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's finest hour
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]The man who stopped the trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's finest hour
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.54779430924/0050
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]05147
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Syracuse, New York, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Syracuse University Press
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2000
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]341p.,index,bibliography
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Book
[nb-NO]Series title[nb-NO]Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]0815606443
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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.