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José Arturo Castellanos (1893 - 1977) - 0 views

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  • José Arturo Castellanos Contreras (San Vicente, El Salvador, December 23, 1893 — San Salvador, June 18, 1977) was a Salvadoran army colonel and diplomat who, while working as El Salvador’s Consul General for Geneva during WWII, and in conjunction with a Jewish-Hungarian businessman named György Mandl (George Mandel), helped save up to 40,000 Central European Jews from Nazi persecution by providing them with false papers of Salvadoran nationality.
  • Mandel-Mantello proposed to Castellanos that they issue Salvadoran documents to help save Jews.
  • In 1942, Castellanos became the Salvadoran General Consul in Geneva and appointed Mandel-Mantello the consulate’s “First Secretary,” a ficticious title that does not exist in the Salvadoran diplomatic hierarchy.
  • charmen chaminis on 07 Mar 14
     
    Arturo Castellanos Helped 40,000 Jews from the Nazi. He was a Salvadorian. His boss was Madel-Montello.
Grace Rico

Holocaust Facts - 33 Facts You Should Know About the Holocaust - 0 views

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  • In addition to Jews, the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered.
  • The term "Nazi" is an acronym for "Nationalsozialistishe Deutsche Arbeiterpartei" ("National Socialist German Worker's Party"). The Nazis used the term "the Final Solution" to refer to their plan to murder the Jewish people.
  • 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. Six million of these were Jews.
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  • Nazis killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe.
  • 1.1 million children were murdered in the Holocaust.
  • The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people. The Hebrew word "Shoah," which means "devastation, ruin, or waste," is also used for this genocide. In addition to Jews, the Nazis targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the disabled for persecution. Anyone who resisted the Nazis was sent to forced labor or murdered.
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