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קטעי ריאיונות לא ערוכים עם פרופסור מאייר בנוגע לקורותיו בשואה ולאיש שהציל אותו, חסיד אומות העולם, קונסול אלסלוודור בשוויץ.

Director : Roger Atwood

Production Year : 2017

Language : English

Professor Mayer

A documentary film. In 1944, the Mayer family was living in Budapest when the Nazis invaded. Like thousands of Jews in the Hungarian capital, the Mayers were evicted from their home by fascist militias. They went into hiding and could easily have been deported to a death camp, along with some 500,000 other Hungarian Jews. But they carried a document that protected them: a “certificate of nationality,” issued by a diplomat from El Salvador, José Arturo Castellanos. From his post as consul-general in Geneva, Castellanos and his deputy George Mantello issued such certificates to some 13,000 Hungarian...

Director : Roger Atwood

Production Year : 2017

Duration : 21

Language : English

Righteous Col. José Arturo Castellanos - Preview

At the height of WWII, an influential diplomat from the Central American country of El Salvador took a stand against the evils of the nazis and together with his 'First Secretary' saved tens of thousands of lives by issuing Salvadoran nationality documents. In 2010 Jose Arturo Castellanos was named 'Righteous Among the Nations', securing his place in history as the "Latin American Oskar Schindler".

Director : Boris Castellanos, Alvaro Castellanos

Production Year : 2015

Duration : 4

Language : English, Spanish