Eric Saul (tall man in the middle) at Arch Street Friends Meeting House
held at the Arch Street Friends Meeting House. The event focused on Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat in Budapest who rescued 62,000 Jews from the Holocaust. At the center of research and publication of work about Lutz and other diplomats who rescued Jews is Eric Saul, one of the speakers at the event.
I was not aware that anyone had rescued that many Jews from Hitler and his horrible minions. And I think of Budapest as one of the worst sites in the tragedy of that is The Holocaust. In just a few months in the middle of 1944, more than 400,000 Jews were deported from Budapest to Auschwitz and other death camps. Adolph Eichmann reached his peak of evil efficiency in Budapest in 1944. It was happily stunning to find that an epic rescue was going on at the same.
I will be writing more about this program and about Saul later in the year. At this time of the year when the world marks the end of the Holocaust and of World War II in Europe, I was delighted to learn about a heroic action I had not previously been aware of.
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