George Mantello. now 87 years old. is one of the most outstanding examples we have of a single individual standing up and mobilizing the world against the atrocities of Nazi Germany and its death camps. George Mantello. who served as the First Secretary of the El Salvadoran Consulate in Switzerland from 1942 to 1945. saved nearly 30.000 Jews from almost certain death in the Holocaust. and perhaps hundreds of thousands more by the means of two extraordinary feats of rescue. At a time when the Nazis and their Hungarian collaborators were deporting up to 10.000 Jews a day to Auschwitz. threatening to completely exterminate the Hungarian Jewish population of Budapest. Mantello took action which led directly to a halt in these deportatiq".s. Almost singlehandedly. he initiated a prc -s campaign in Switzerland that finally awakened the Western world to the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps. and forced an end to the deportations in Hungary. At the heart of this remarkable event lies Mantellos disclosure to the press of the "Auschwitz Protocol." These protocols were contained in a 30page document that described the ongoing atrocities in the concentration camps. and was based on the testimony of two young escapees from Auschwitz. Josef Lanik and Rudolph Vrba.
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