Under Swiss protection : Jewish eyewitness accounts from wartime Budapest

Under Swiss protection : Jewish eyewitness accounts from wartime Budapest / Agnes Hirschi, Charlotte Schallié (eds.)

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hirschi, Agnes (Editor) Schallié, Charlotte (Editor) Beck, Dahlia (Translator) Thompson, Lauren (Translator) Yarmar, Noga (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stuttgart : ibidem-Verlag, [2017]
Subjects:	Lutz, Carl Geschichte 1944-1945 Judenverfolgung Retter Zeitzeuge Ungarn Budapest Schweiz
Contents/pieces:	39 records
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. "I had many Christian friends who came to our home; all that changed on March 12, 1938, when the Nazis took over"

2. "Remembering 1944 and Carl Lutz"

3. "On the nineteenth of March 1944, all of us went underground"

4. Letter to Carl Lutz (1945) : a handwritten letter of thanks from Geoffrey Tier

5. "On October 20, at five o ́clock in the morning, my Holocaust began"

6. "I did not give up trying to get to no. 29 Vadász utca"

7. "The Red Cross and the Swiss legation had retrieved us from a death march"

8. "Carl Lutz stood out like a monument-He was an example of what can be done"

9. "I remember it was a house built of glass"

10. "To this day, I have not been able to understand how she managed to find my father ́s Kiddush cup"

11. "Eva never spoke about her childhood"

12. "Shmulik played the accordion and we all sang Hatikvah on the Ship`s deck"

13. Context and Milestones of the Rescue Activities of Carl Lutz and His Team

14. "Unlike adults, I dont ́t think we, the children, realized the situation was that of life and death"

15. "The American air raid saved our lives"

16. "Klári, an Arrow Cross man is looking for you"

17. "Arthur Weisz paid with his life for having saved us"

18. "Our mother convinced us to stay with Aunt Hannah under Swiss protection"

19. "And suddenly they called me saying that my father came back"

20. "The movement begann to provide us with false documents"

21. "During the bombardments, we hid ourselves in the pantry"

22. "In my breadbasket, I would smuggle letters for the prisoners"

23. "We were forced out of the bunker with tear gas and shoved naked in the snow"

24. "Tribute to Carl Lutz"

25. "The man who changes my life"

26. "She refused to let the star be sewn onto her clothing"

27. "We tried to save whoever we could, however we could"

28. "I didn ́t know for what I was liberated. The only reason was my son"

29. "Diplomats are not expected to be heroes taking risks"

30. "I took the doll, [...], and we started making our way home"

31. "Every moment, every slip of paper meant human life"

32. "My fate was the exception"

33. "Our skirts were filled with the money our wise grandmother had sewn into our hems"

34. "I will never forget the horrors of the war years"

35. "We were the last ones to get inside the Glass House"

36. "I was too young to understand the situation"

37. "The last time I saw my mother"

38. "I was proud of the small yellow star"

39. "We were left with what is the most precious: our lives"