Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Heroes In War

 

During the Second World War, a colonel, diplomat and Consul General for Geneva from El Salvador named Jose Arturo Castellanos Contrera, partnered with a Jewish-Romanian businessman named György Mandl, saved over 40,000 Central European Jews from persecution.

This heroic act saved the Central European Jews and offered them a safe refuge in El Salvador as Contreras gave them enough passports.




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