Lifesaving "Schutz-Pass" Issued to Budapest Jew During World War II

Edité par Budapest, Hungary, 1944

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Partially Printed Document Initialed, Schutz-Pass issued to Izs Kampf, September 22, 1944, Budapest, Hungary. In German and Hungarian. Also signed by Swedish Minister Carl Ivan Danielsson. 1 p., 8 1/4 x 13 1/2 in. Includes a 2-page supplementary document for Kampf, which bears Wallenbergs stamped signature. Raoul Wallenberg hastily initialed this pass with an ink scribble (as he commonly did on documents of this type). This blue and yellow two-language Schutz-Pass provides personal information on Izs Kampf, including her birthdate (July 23, 1901), birthplace (Tarov, Ukraine), height, eye and hair color, and includes Kampf's signature. However, the formerly affixed photograph is missing. Historical BackgroundWallenberg arrived in Hungary in July 1944 as the country's Jewish population was under siege. Nearly every other major Jewish community in Europe had already been decimated, and the Nazis were dispatching more than 10,000 Hungarian Jews to the gas chambers daily. With time of the essence, he devised and distributed thousands of these "Schutz-Passes"-official-looking, but essentially invalid, Swedish passports granting the Hungarian bearer immunity from deportation. Nazi officials readily accepted the paperwork.Thus, with his simple, nondescript scribble on this offered page, Wallenberg saved the life of Izs Kampf-just as he had done with thousands of other Jews in Hungary. An announcement that any Jew, even those holding foreign citizenship, would be interred led to the urgency of Wallenberg's plan to save as many lives as he could. An important reminder of one heroic man's tireless efforts to outwit the Nazis and save countless lives.Raoul Wallenberg (1912-ca. 1947) was born in Sweden, but his father died before his birth, and he was raised by his mother and grandmother. He had a one-sixteenth Jewish ancestry and was proud of it. After compulsory service in the Swedish military, he studied architecture in Paris and at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1935. He briefly worked in a Swedish construction firm in South Africa and then in the Holland Bank in Haifa, Palestine. He returned to Sweden in 1936 and began work in an import-export company owned by a Hungarian Jew. Because of anti-Jewish laws in Hungary that restricted travel, Wallenberg increasingly became the owner's personal representative in Hungary and soon became the international director of the company. He also learned to speak Hungarian. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, it began the mass deportation of Hungary's Jews to extermination camps in Poland at a rate reaching 12,000 people per day. As part of an effort to protect Jews, Wallenberg rented 32 buildings in Budapest, which eventually housed almost 10,000 people. He managed to save between 7,000 and 9,000 Jews. A few days before the Soviet Army occupied Budapest, Wallenberg helped avert a plan to blow up the Budapest Jewish ghetto, which then housed 70,000 Jews. The Soviet Red Army encircled Budapest by late December 1944, and in mid-January 1945, Wallenberg was called to the headquarters of Marshal Malinovsky of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, a unit of the Red Army. He was apparently arrested and transferred to Moscow. Swedish authorities believed Wallenberg was dead, but he died in a Soviet prison in July 1947, either of heart failure or executed by Soviet authorities. Others suggested that Wallenberg was still alive as late as the 1980s. President Ronald Reagan signed legislation to make Wallenberg an honorary American citizen (the second person ever to receive this honor, behind Winston Churchill) to encourage the Soviet Union to answer questions about his fate.Carl Ivan Danielsson (1880-1963) was born in Sweden and entered the Swedish Foreign Ministry in 1903. He served in Warsaw (1919-1920), Madrid and Lisbon (1921-1924, 1925-1937), Vienna and Budapest (1922-1924), Cairo (1937-1942), and as envoy and head of the Swedish legation in Bud. (See website for full description).

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Titre
Lifesaving "Schutz-Pass" Issued to Budapest Jew During World War II
Auteur
RAOUL WALLENBERG
Éditeur
Budapest, Hungary
Année de publication
1944
État de l'article
Very Good
Type de livre
Printed Document Initialed
Reliure
No binding
Catalogues du vendeur
Ephemera, History, Signed

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