The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour,9780815628736

The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour

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ISBN13: 9780815628736
ISBN10: 0815628730
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-09-01
Publisher(s): Syracuse Univ Pr
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Author Biography

David Kranzler, historian and retired professor at the City University of New York

Table of Contents

Illustrations
ix
Foreword xi
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Switzerland's Finest Hour xvii
Background
1(14)
Switzerland as an Information Center
15(11)
Early Salvadoran Papers
26(17)
Jewish Rescue Efforts in Hungary
43(16)
Mantello's Early Rescue Efforts
59(23)
The Manoliu Mission
82(13)
The Beginning of the Swiss Press Campaign
95(27)
The Press Campaign in Full Swing
122(22)
The Response by the Hungarians, the Germans, and the IRC
144(34)
Horthy Takes Charge
178(20)
The Nyilas Era
198(30)
Postwar
228(23)
Afterword
251(6)
Abbreviations 257(2)
Notes 259(56)
Bibliography 315(8)
Index 323

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