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Letter of Sponsorship from the Swiss Embassy, Issued by Righteous Gentile Carl Lutz. Budapest, 1944

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Sponsorship letter given to the Jew Mr. Lengyel Vilmos and his wife, Gajári Anna, by the Swiss Embassy's Foreign Interests department, administered by Carl Lutz, during the extermination of Hungarian Jewry.
Vilmos Lengyel/Lipniker (1893-1959) was a famous Jewish actor in Hungary born in Subiu (presently in Romania) with the given name Vilmos Lipniker. He fought in the Hungarian army during WWI, and worked as an actor in Kluzh, Szeged and Ordea. In 1925, he moved to Budapest and worked as an actor in the leading theaters there. He could not act on stage from 1939-1945 due to his Jewish origin. After surviving the terrors of the Holocaust, in the merit of this document before us, he returned to act in the Budapest Operetta-theater in 1954, continuing until his passing in 1959.
Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was one of the most prominent righteous gentiles. He was a Swiss diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the period of extermination of Hungarian Jewry, and their deportation to Auschwitz. Lutz worked to rescue Budapest Jews by issuing Swiss "letters of sponsorship" for Jews who had certificates. He even conducted negotiations with high-level Nazi officials, including Adolf Eichmann. Over time, he issued approximately 8,000 letters of sponsorship, and in this way about 30,000 (!) Jews were included under the protection of these letters. Lutz worked together with other diplomats, such as Angelo Rota, to establish the "International Ghetto" which protected the Jews with letters of sponsorship from extermination. In appreciation of his work, Lutz became one of the first to be recognized as a righteous gentile, and a government medal and a postage stamp were issued in his memory.
[1] leaf official stationery of the Swiss embassy in Budapest (country emblem in red), 28x21 cm. Typewritten. Bilingual, with Hungarian on the right side and German on the left. Stamped with the embassy stamp, in red ink.
Fine-very fine condition, fold marks, tiny tears in the folds without damage to text.

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Sponsorship letter given to the Jew Mr. Lengyel Vilmos and his wife, Gajári Anna, by the Swiss Embassy's Foreign Interests department, administered by Carl Lutz, during the extermination of Hungarian Jewry.
Vilmos Lengyel/Lipniker (1893-1959) was a famous Jewish actor in Hungary born in Subiu (presently in Romania) with the given name Vilmos Lipniker. He fought in the Hungarian army during WWI, and worked as an actor in Kluzh, Szeged and Ordea. In 1925, he moved to Budapest and worked as an actor in the leading theaters there. He could not act on stage from 1939-1945 due to his Jewish origin. After surviving the terrors of the Holocaust, in the merit of this document before us, he returned to act in the Budapest Operetta-theater in 1954, continuing until his passing in 1959.
Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was one of the most prominent righteous gentiles. He was a Swiss diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews during the period of extermination of Hungarian Jewry, and their deportation to Auschwitz. Lutz worked to rescue Budapest Jews by issuing Swiss "letters of sponsorship" for Jews who had certificates. He even conducted negotiations with high-level Nazi officials, including Adolf Eichmann. Over time, he issued approximately 8,000 letters of sponsorship, and in this way about 30,000 (!) Jews were included under the protection of these letters. Lutz worked together with other diplomats, such as Angelo Rota, to establish the "International Ghetto" which protected the Jews with letters of sponsorship from extermination. In appreciation of his work, Lutz became one of the first to be recognized as a righteous gentile, and a government medal and a postage stamp were issued in his memory.
[1] leaf official stationery of the Swiss embassy in Budapest (country emblem in red), 28x21 cm. Typewritten. Bilingual, with Hungarian on the right side and German on the left. Stamped with the embassy stamp, in red ink.
Fine-very fine condition, fold marks, tiny tears in the folds without damage to text.

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