Per Anger, has worked with Raoul Wallenberg at the Swedish Legation in Budapest. He was awarded as a "Righteous Among the Nations" by the State of Israel and Yad Vashem in 1982.
Tibor Baranski, was the right man of the Papal Nunzio Angelo Rotta issuing tens of thousands baptismal certificates to Jews . He was executive director of the Protection of Jews movement. Rotta and Baranski worked in close cooperation with Raoul Wallenberg and the Swedish Red Cross. He received an award as "a righteous gentile" from the Israeli government.
Jean de Bavier, Since 1943 Jean de Bavier was delegator for the international „Red Cross“ in Budapest. The operational circumstances were quite positive but de Bavier´s hands were tied because of the instructions from Genf. In his statements and handlings he was to remain totally neutral. He was not allowed to make any political or religious statements.
Count Folke Bernadotte, was vice chairman of the Swedish Red Cross, supervising the exchange of 15000 disabled British and German war prisoners from the concentration camps. Was assasinated 1948. Count Folke Bernadotte has been honoured in Yad Vashem the Righteous Among the Nations 2000.
Freidrich Born, was appointed ICRC delegator in Budapest, went to great efforts to try and help the Jews. Approximately 3.000 people were working for him. Born supported the setting up of old peoples homes, orphanges and kitchens.He issued about 15.000 protection papers, the majority as a direct result of the „Death Marches“.
Hillel Cook, organized a pageant “We Shall Never Die” performed in major US cities.
Varian Fry: (english version), (french version) American working working with the help of the American Consulat in Marseilles. Among the rescuer were Marc Chagall and the german filosof Thomas Mann.
Carl Lutz, Along with Wallenberg the most active person in the „Hungarian Rescue Mission“ was the Swiss Carl Lutz. On the 02.01.1942 he became head of the „Protection“ department in the Swiss Legation to Budapest. Here he represented the interests of twelve countries, who were also at war like Hungary. Carl Lutz was under very strict Swiss direction. It was not possible for him to take precedence against the deportation plans in May of 1944.
George Mantello (Mandl Gyuri), immediately initiated an extraordinary dual Swiss press and church campaign supported by Swiss newspapers which ignored strict Swiss censonship rules
Laszlo Ocksay, a man whom the nazis expected to be a killer, was instead the savior of more thab 2000 Hungarian Jews in the waning of World War II.
Giorgio Perlasca, 8.000 Jews were accommodated in eight Spanish protection houses. Sanz Briz, Spanisch ambassador in Hungary, left the country. Perlasca mirrored himself as Briz´s replacement. He took his inspiration from Wallenberg´s activities. Sometimes they both drove to train stations to save Jews. Approximately 5.000 lives were saved by Perlasca.
Angelo Rotta, Angelo Rotta was Papal Nuncio in Budapest. By March 1944 he had urgently requested the prime minister to make a statement. In the following months Rotta, under Vatican direction, protested against the merciless measures carried out on the Jews
Irena Sendler, an incredible woman and her amazing gift to mankind. Irena Sendler. An unfamiliar name to most people, but this remarkable woman defied the Nazis and saved 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto. As a health worker, she sneaked the children out between 1942 and 1943 to safe hiding places and found non-Jewish families to adopt them.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Sousa Mendes granted visas to numerous refugees, going against the express orders of his government. For that reason, countless people began to crowd in the vicinity of the Portuguese Conculate - Portuguese visas became their only hope.
Gàbor Sztehlo, Following German occupation Sztehlo came in contact with the Good Shepherd Committee. Together with the International Red Cross they provided aid for homeless children and also for escaped ´forces workers. abor Stzehlo took very special care of the children. Following the Arrow Cross Revolt, Éliás had to go into hiding, so Sztehlo took over the leader position. In various houses approximately 2.000 people, the majority of which were children, were beeing cared for.
Ernö Szép, Szép pleaded the embassy for protection passes for himself and his relatives. On the same day about five hundred others had the same wish. By chance Szép was recognised by the son of an emloyee from Wallenberg. Szép did not have to prove any Swedish connection, his name as a writer was enough.
