David Kranzler

Gebundenes Buch

The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz

George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour

Beschreibung

This work tells the story of how George Mantello - First Secretary of the El Salvador Consulate in Geneva from 1942 to 1945 - defied censorship to launch a press campaign against the daily deportation of 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz.

Autor

David Kranzler, historian and retired professor at the City University of New York, is the author of nine books. He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust and the forthcoming Yale Encyclopedia of the Holocaust.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9780815628736
• ISBN-10: 0815628730
• Artikelnr.: 21154051