Mantello George

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn500301
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Testimony, 40 pages, typescript, about the experiences of the author and his family in Berlin, then in various parts of Europe (Denmark, Netherlands, the Westerbork and deportation to Theresienstadt), as well as role of El Salvador (specifically George Mandel-Mantello) in helping save him and family's life by issuing citizenship certificates.

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• P.29
• English
• 1942-1944
• 38 Files
• Updated 10 years ago

The collection is composed of documents signed by Mantello certifying that the bearer of the document is a San Salvadorian citizen.

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
• 3684544
• English, Hebrew
• 1944-1945
• Microfilm 646 pages/frames
• Updated 5 years ago

Documentation regarding help by various countries and by the Red Cross organization to the Jews in Hungary, including the distribution of foreign citizenship certificates, protective passports and certificates to Eretz Israel, 1944-1945 - Documentation regarding efforts to obtain passports and citizenship documents of South American countries for persecuted Jews and the granting of Schutzbrief (protective passports) to Jews in Hungary by embassies of neutral countries (Switzerland, Sweden and Portugal); - Reports by the Hechalutz movement regarding the situation of the Jews in Hungary; - Re...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37783
• English
• 1942-1944
• 1000 documents,
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of approximately 1000 unauthorized Salvadoran citizenship papers prepared by George Mandel-Mantello, honorary first secretary to the Salvadoran consulate in Geneva. Also includes an English language 1944 copy of the Auschwitz Protocols (also known as the Vrba-Wetzler report) with cover letter sent to Mantello, as well as additional correspondence and clippings. Accretion received October 2015: transcription of June 6, 1979 interview for the Oral History Collection of Columbia University; typewritten copy of manuscript "The Rise and Fall of Hungarian Jewry," by George Mandel-Mantell...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn98208
• English
• 1942-2005
• boxes 3
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, copies of articles and speeches, and copies of archival holdings related to the work of George Mandel-Mantello. The material was collected by Mantello and by his son, Enrico Mantello, about his wartime activities as a diplomat for the El Salvadore consulate in Geneva, Switzerland from 1942 to 1945, during which time he created false Salvadoran citizenship papers in an attempt to provide diplomatic protection for Jewish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. Also contains a photocopy of a transcription of June 6, 1979 interview of T...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn39427
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of a certificate stating that the Soep family were nationalized citizens of El Salvador. The document was stamped and signed by George Mantello on February 6, 1944 in Geneva, Switzerland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47391
• English
• 1935-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of seven photographs of the Weidlinger (now Veidlinger) family, originally of Hungary. Includes wartime photographs of the family, including images in which the members are wearing Magen David (Stars of David). Also includes Andor (Andrew) Weidlinger's Red Cross identity card in Hungary, dated October 10, 1944; the card was altered into a Russian identity card in 1945. The family received Salvadorean citizenship papers via George Mantello.