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Behind the Aegis

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Sat Jul 11, 2020, 02:55 PM Jul 2020

(Jewish Group)'Spanish Schindler,' Reportedly Saved Over 5,000 Jews During WWII,Finally Gets Tribute

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Angel Sanz Briz, a Spanish diplomat who reportedly saved over 5,000 Jews from Nazi persecution in Hungary, was given an online tribute 40 years after his death.

Sanz Briz was appointed to a diplomatic post in Hungary in 1944. As the Holocaust worsened there, he offered to protect Jews of Spanish origin and bring them Spanish passports. He received the consent of the Hungarian authorities to enable 200 Spanish Jews to receive them, but he turned that into 200 families, and kept increasing the number, according to Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust museum that recognized him as Righteous Among the Nations in 1966.

It is believed that in the last seven months of 1944, Briz issued forged Spanish documents to 5,200 Jews.

Thursday’s tribute, which was hosted by the chief Sephardic rabbi of Buenos Aires, Isaac Sacca, was organized by Menora, an Argentine Sephardic institution, with the support of the Center Sefarad Israel in Spain, the Argentine Jewish political umbrella group DAIA and the Federation of Jewish Communities in Spain, or FCJE.

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(Jewish Group)'Spanish Schindler,' Reportedly Saved Over 5,000 Jews During WWII,Finally Gets Tribute (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Jul 2020 OP
Thanks for posting Raven123 Jul 2020 #1
What a heroic man. Looks like there's a film about him. JudyM Jul 2020 #2

Raven123

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1. Thanks for posting
Sat Jul 11, 2020, 04:52 PM
Jul 2020

In what seems like a sea of inhumanity, acknowledging the acts of those who acted to protect lives from Nazi persecution always reminds us of who we should be.

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