{"product_id":"under-swiss-protection-jewish-eyewitness-accounts-from-wartime-budapest-9783838211091","title":"Under Swiss Protection: Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest","description":"\u003ch2\u003eJewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime Budapest\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis documentary volume presents firsthand Jewish testimonies of Carl Lutz's diplomatic rescue operation in Budapest, Hungary, between March 1944 and February 1945. Through interviews with Holocaust survivors across six countries—Canada, Hungary, Israel, Switzerland, the UK, and the United States—the book documents how Lutz and his team issued more than 50,000 lifesaving letters of protection (\u003ci\u003eSchutzbriefe\u003c\/i\u003e) and established 76 safe houses as annexes of the Swiss Legation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Rescue Network\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCarl Lutz coordinated his humanitarian efforts alongside his wife Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, Moshe Krausz (director of the Palestine Office in Budapest), fellow Swiss citizens Harald Feller, Ernst Vonrufs, and Peter Zürcher, plus the underground Zionist Youth Movement. This collaborative network created one of the most extensive rescue operations during the Holocaust, providing Swiss diplomatic protection to tens of thousands of persecuted Jews in Budapest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eEyewitness Documentation\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe testimonies collected in this volume reveal the extraordinary scope of Lutz's humanitarian response during the final year of World War II. Survivors share their experiences of receiving protection letters, finding refuge in Swiss-protected safe houses, and witnessing the diplomatic efforts that saved their lives. These firsthand accounts provide historical documentation of how neutral diplomatic channels became instruments of mass rescue during the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgnes Hirschi was born in London shortly before World War II broke out. She spent her early youth in Budapest and the last two months of the war together with the Lutz family in the bomb shelter of the former British Legation in Buda. The building was hit by twenty firebombs and completely burned down over their heads. Since 1949, she has lived in Switzerland. She was raised by Carl Lutz, who married her mother Magda in 1949. She has worked as a journalist for a daily newspaper and served as a judge. The occupation with the legacy of her father has become an important part of her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCharlotte Schallié is associate professor of Germanic studies at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include post-1945 German literature and film, transcultural studies, Jewish identity in contemporary cultural discourse, and Holocaust education.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ibidem Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493392388370,"sku":"9783838211091","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_64219f1e-b01e-4d85-a83a-3978e5e427bf.jpg?v=1730646185","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/under-swiss-protection-jewish-eyewitness-accounts-from-wartime-budapest-9783838211091","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}