George Mantello (11 December 1901 – 25 April 1992) was a Jewish diplomat who, while working for the Salvadoran consulate in Geneva, Switzerland from 1942 to 1945, saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by providing them with fictive Salvadoran citizenship papers. He publicized in mid-1944 the deportation of Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp, which had great impact on rescue and was a major contributing factor to Hungary's Regent Miklós Horthy stopping the transports to Auschwitz.
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11 December 1901 Lekence, Transylvania
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Died |
25 April 1992 (aged 90) Rome, Italy
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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