George Mantello

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George Mantello (born George Mandl or Mandel) was a Jewish diplomat who, while working for the Salvadoran consulate in Geneva, Switzerland, saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by providing fictive Salvadoran citizenship papers and by publicizing the deportation of Jews from Hungary to the death camps.

Mantello was born in 1901^[1] to Orthodox Jewish parents in Beszterce, Transylvania. Originally a textiles manufacturer as an adult in Bucharest, he met Salvadoran consul Colonel José Arturo Castellanos in the 1930s and went to work for him at the Salvadoran consulate in Geneva.

[edit] Notes

^ John Lamperti. "El Salvador's Holocaust Hero,"

[edit] Further reading

David Kranzler. The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador and Switzerland's Finest Hour.
Rafael Ángel Alfaro Pineda. "El Salvador and Schindler's list: A valid comparison," Raoul Wallenberg web site.
Embassy of El Salvador in Israel, "El Salvador and the Holocaust: An almost unknown chapter in the history of El Salvador."
Jon Kimche. "The war's unpaid debt Of honour: How El Salvador saved tens of thousands Of Jews," Jewish Observer and Middle East Review.
Ernie Meyer. "The Unknown Hero: One sympathetic foreign diplomat saved thousands of Jews in Europe by providing them with foreign citizenship papers."
Ernie Meyer. "The greatest rescue of the Holocaust."
"Where is the Conscience of the World?" (editorial), Orthodox Tribune.

[edit] External links

"El Salvador, a rescuing country" (profile of Mantello), International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation

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