Angel sanz briz biography templates

BACKGROUND  

Ángel Sanz Briz was the head of the Spanish Legation in Budapest in the waning days of WWII.

Angel sanz briz biography templates

During the Russian Army’s rapid advance on the Hungarian capital, Hitler installed a puppet government led by rabid antisemites.  He simultaneously dispatched Adolf Eichmann to Budapest to execute his final solution to the Jewish problem.  The only thing standing in the way of total annihilation of the last large Jewish population of Europe was a handful of diplomats from the few remaining neutral countries that still had diplomatic relations with Hungary.

Sanz Briz convinced the Hungarian government to authorize the protection by Spain of supposedly "Sephardic" Jews applying for passports for "repatriation" to Spain. He found numerous ways to bend the rules to save more lives.  He issued passports to families instead of individuals.  When he ran out of numbers, he added letters to the numbers (e.g., /B) to ge