Romanian-born diplomat, saved Jews during the Holocaust
George Mantello
Born
György Mandl
(1901-12-11)11 December 1901
Lekence, Kingdom of Hungary
Died
25 April 1992(1992-04-25) (aged 90)
Rome, Italy
Resting place
Jerusalem, Israel
Known for
Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust
Children
3
George Mantello (born György Mandl; 11 December 1901 – 25 April 1992), a businessman with various diplomatic activities, born into a Jewish family from Transylvania, helped save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust while working for the Salvadoran consulate in Geneva, Switzerland from 1942 to 1945 under the protection of consul Castellanos Contreras, by providing them with fictive Salvadoran citizenship papers. He publicized in mid-1944 the deportation of Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, which had great impact on rescue, rapidly led to unprecedented large-scale grass root protests by the Swiss people and church, which was a major contributing factor to Hungary's regent Miklós Horthy stopping the transports to Auschwitz.
During Mantello's youth, Transylvania was part of Hungary, itself part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; after the First World War it became part of Romania, but in 1940 Hungary recovered the northern part of the historical region, including Mantello's birth region, thanks to the Second Vienna Award. Both Hungary and Romania were allies of Nazi Germany, and Mantello had to first use all his remarkable skills and connections to save himself, his wife and his child from Nazi deportation by escaping to Switzerland.
Mantello is buried in the Jerusalem Har Hamenuchot cemetery.
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about the mass murder taking place there. The report, distributed by GeorgeMantello in Switzerland, is credited with having halted the mass deportation...
is the kind of thing I would like to do’". At the end of May 1944, GeorgeMantello received and immediately publicized two important reports given to...
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Krausz in Budapest who forwarded it to GeorgeMantello in Switzerland via Romanian diplomat Florian Manilou. Mantello publicized its content immediately upon...
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the Allies to bomb places where there are Jews." In the meantime, GeorgeMantello distributed the Auschwitz Protocols (including the Vrba–Wetzler report)...
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III. Translated by Hooper, W. London: G. Scott. p. 345. Mantello, FAC (1999) [1996]. Mantello, Frank Anthony Carl; Rigg, A. G (eds.). Medieval Latin:...
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