Lutz Carl

Lutz, Carl
Lutz, Carl, 1895-1975
Lutz, Carl Robert 1895-1975
Lutz, Charles 1895-1975
Lutz, Carl 1895-1975

Identifier: 000260
Type of Entity: Person

Dates of Existence

30/03/1985

1975

History

Diplomat credited with saving over 65 000 Jews. Righteous Among the Nations (1965)

Places

Walzenhausen, Switzerland

Sources

Encyclopaedia Judaica / ed. F. Skolnik and M. Berenbaum. - Macmillan, 2007. - v. 13, p. 274
Encyclopaedia Judaica / ed. F. Skolnik and M. Berenbaum. - Macmillan, 2007. - v. 13, p. 274

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Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documentation regarding the roles of Swiss citizens Carl Lutz, Saly Mayer and Curt Truempy in the negotiations with the Nazis to rescue the Jews of Hungary, 1944-1961
1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3689750
- English, Hebrew
- 1944-1961
- Original Typewritten copy פוטוקופיה 85 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Documentation regarding the roles of Swiss citizens Carl Lutz, Saly Mayer and Curt Truempy in the negotiations with the Nazis to rescue the Jews of Hungary, 1944-1961 Among the items in the file: - Correspondence between Roswell McClelland, WRB (War Refugee Board) representative in Switzerland, and Saly Mayer, JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) representative in Switzerland, regarding the negotiations with the Nazis to rescue the Jews of Hungary; a report by McClelland is attached to the correspondence; - Excepts from memoirs of Carl Truempy regarding the negoti...
Berni követségi iratai
- Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Bern, Switzerland
- Magyar Nemzeti Levéltár Országos Levéltára
- MNL OL K 84
- English
- 1918-1945
- 227 fasc., 79 vols., 33,79 linear metres
- Updated 10 years ago
The collection of materials from the Hungarian Embassy in Bern, Switzerland includes miscellaneous documents. It contains information on the Swiss policy towards foreigners and the concrete measures adopted to control them, including the operation of refugee camps. More concretely, there are documents on Hungarian citizens residing in Switzerland and Hungarian Jewish migration to Switzerland as well as on the internment of Hungarian citizens as well as references to their deportation by Nazi Germany. The collection also contains official reports on Swiss internal affairs, foreign policy and...
Carl Lutz papers Nachlass Konsul Carl Lutz (1895-1975)
1. Carl Lutz collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn558459
- English
- 1906-1988
- 11,401 digital images, PDF 3 sound recordings, MP3 46 filmstrips, MP4
- Updated 1 year ago
Private papers of Carl Lutz (1895-1975), a Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest (1942-1945), Lutz was involved in the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews. He was a passionate filmer and photographer. The collection contains a part of Lutz's papers (another part is held by the Yad Vashem Archives) and consists of biographical materials and personal documents: CV, honors, photographs, diaries, audio recordings, and correspondence, e.g. with the US Holocaust Museum, Washington DC (1989-1990), (File 137); diplomatic reports relating to Palestine (1934-1940), economic relations Switzerland-Palestine, t...
Diary written by Saly Mayer and separate pieces of paper with notes written by Mayer regarding his activities in the JDC organization, 1945
1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3684560
- English, Hebrew
- 1945
- Microfilm 863 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Diary written by Saly Mayer and separate pieces of paper with notes written by Mayer regarding his activities in the JDC organization, 1945 Diary [apparently titled], "Agenda 1945", written by Saly Mayer in 1945, including: - Documentation regarding the "ARBA" [?] negotiations with SS representatives and, in main, with Herbert Kettlitz; - Documentation regarding the transfer of 1,210 Jews from Theresienstadt to Switzerland as a result of the negotiations held with SS representatives and Swiss statesman Jean-Marie Musy, 07 February 1945; - Documentation regarding the care of the refugees (th...
Diplomats
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Documentation, including a list of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Hungary that was sent to Saly Mayer by Nathan Schwalb, a letter written by Israel Kasztner to Saly Mayer regarding the negotiations with the SS, a report by Philip von Freudiger reg
1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 3684667
- English, Hebrew
- 1944-1978
- Microfilm 611 pages/frames
- Updated 6 years ago
Documentation, including a list of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Hungary that was sent to Saly Mayer by Nathan Schwalb, a letter written by Israel Kasztner to Saly Mayer regarding the negotiations with the SS, a report by Philip von Freudiger regarding the events in Hungary, and other matters; documents dated, 1944-1978 - List of names of Jewish refugees from Poland who are still in Hungary, sent to Saly Mayer by Nathan Schwalb, 03 October 1944; - Letter written by Israel Kasztner to Saly Mayer, regarding the "ARBA" [?] negotiations with the SS, 10 October 1944; - Report sent by Ph...
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- EHRI Terms
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Lutz, Walter
- Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
- ZS 3067 / 1
- German
- 1945-1954
- 79 Bl.
- Updated 10 years ago
Aufzeichnungen Lutz "Stimmungsbericht aus Stuttgart", 18./ 30. Juni 1945 betreffend Stimmung in Deutschland in unmittelbarer Nachkriegszeit, Öffentliche Meinung zu Alliierten, Zeit des Nationalsozialismus, Kriegsverbrecherprozesse, Widerstand unter Hitler etc.; Briefe Lutz an Stevens, 18. Juli-19. Oktober 1945 betreffend Wehrwolf und deutsche Polizei, Nachkriegsprobleme, Verhalten der Militärregierung gegenüber nationalsozialistisch eingestuften Firmen, Entnazifizierung und deren Probleme, Besatzungsmächte, durch Nationalsozialismus politisch Geschädigte und dadurch Mittellose (Wohnungsakti...
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P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970
- ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
- 4019608
- English, Hebrew
- 1935-1970
- Album Letter List of names Newspaper clippings Official documentation Passport Personal documents Photograph Research article Survey report
- Updated 1 year ago
P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970 Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss Vice Consul in Jaffa, Eretz Israel, 1935-1941, and in Budapest, Hungary, 1942-1945. Following the German occupation of Hungary, 1944, he was extremely active in rescuing Jews with United States, British, Romanian, El Salvadorian and other citizenships, as well as on behalf of those with certificates to make aliya to Eretz Israel. - The collection was submitted to Yad Vashem in 1981, through the generosity of Agnes Hirschi, Lutz's adopted daughter; - The collection is c...

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