Raoul Wallenberg

Raoul Wallenberg

male, 97 years old
yad vashem, diplomatic cover, Lubyanka, University of Michigan alumni, JewishHungarianhistory, Honorary citizen of Canada
Raoul Gustav Wallenberg was a Swedish humanitarian sent to Budapest, Hungary under diplomatic cover to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. He worked to...
Carl Lutz

Carl Lutz

male, deceased (1975)
Angel Sanz Briz, International Committee of The Red Cross, the holocaust, yad vashem, extermination camp, JewishHungarianhistory…Jewish person
Carl Lutz (30 March, 1895 - 12 February, 1975) was the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary from 1942 until the end of World War II. He helped...
Maximilian Jaeger

Maximilian Jaeger

male
Swiss, auschwitz, diplomat, JewishHungarianhistory, Arrow Cross Party, Nazi
Maximilian Jaeger (c1915-1999) was a Swiss Minister in Budapest from 1936 to 1944 In 1936, Jaeger was transferred to Budapest, where Switzerland...
Giorgio Perlasca

Giorgio Perlasca

male, deceased (1992)
from the Province of Como, Jorge Perlasca, Raoul Wallenberg Award recipient, Righteous Among the Nations, Consul-General, From COMO…JewishHungarianhistory, Jewish person
Giorgio or Jorge Perlasca (January 31, 1910 - August 15, 1992) was an Italian who posed as the Spanish consul-general to Hungary in the winter of...

Károly Szabó

male
hungarian, JewishHungarianhistory, helped Jews during the Holocaust, Human rights abuses
Károly Szabó was an employee on the Swedish Embassy in Budapest from 1944 to 1945. He was a supporter of Raoul Wallenberg and had a significant ro...
Rudolf Kastner

Rudolf Kastner

male, deceased (1957)
Kastner train, JewishHungarianhistory, death by firearm in Israel, Holocaust, Malchiel Greenwald, nuremberg…Jewish Holocaust survivor, hungarian, Jewish person
Rudolf (Rezső) Kastner (Kasztner), also known as Israel (Yisrael) Kastner was the "de facto" head of a small Jewish organization in Budapest known a...
Harald Feller

Harald Feller

male
Swiss, Holocaust, diplomat, JewishHungarianhistory, Budapest, Hungary, Bern, Switzerland
Harald Feller was a Swiss diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. He replaced Maximilian Jaeger (c1915-1999) as head of the Swiss...

Pál Szalai

male
World War II, hungarian, JewishHungarianhistory, helped Jews during the Holocaust, Arrow Cross Party, Paul Sterling
Pál Szalai also spelled Pál Szalay and Anglicized as Paul Sterling was a high ranking member of the police force and the Hungarian Arrow Cross Pa...

Sulitz

male
Far Rockaway, Sasregen, Sasregener, hasidic dynasty, Hasidic dynasties, Shmuel Shmelka Rubin…JewishHungarianhistory
Sulitz is a Hasidic dynasty originating in Hungary. The present Rebbe of Sulitz is Rabbi Shmuel Shmelka Rubin. His synagogue is in Far Rockaway,...

Bettelheim

male
Jewish, family names, Bethlen-Jude, Ein ehrlich Jud, Freystadtel on the Waag, Joseph II…Jewish families, JewishHungarianhistory, Jewish Austrian history, Jewish person, hungarian
Bettelheim is the name of a Hungarian noble family. The first bearer of it is said to have lived toward the second half of the eighteenth century,...