Carl Lutz and the Legendary Budapest Glass House


The Exhibition in Palm Springs by michaelcsato
March 8, 2010, 2:13 pm
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On January 27, 2010, on the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day the traveling exhibition of the Carl Lutz Foundation was on display in Temple Isaiah of Palm Springs. The Opening Ceremony was attended by Balázs Bokor, Consul General of Hungary and he delivered a speech. He emphasized that “the sound of silent may be grievous” that’s why we had to lift up our voice so that the sins of the past wouldn’t be able to happen again. Bruno Ryff, Consul General of Switzerland stressed that Carl Lutz who made a stand for a just cause is an icon for the present-day diplomats. The cooperation of Carl Lutz and Zionist Resistance saved many lives in Budapest in 1944.

(2010 January Newsletter of Teple Isaiah, Palm Springs – PDF)

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Hello, Just saw the post. Am writing from Budapest. At a time when slef-knowledge derived from accurate history has surged ahead because of access to IT information, few things are as important and useful as the new knowledge about Lutz. In Hungary, the West led in this self-knowledge for many years, but now it has flooded the identity in manners that are incoherent, and prone to nationalist usury. So it becomes important to focus not on abstarctions that are unfathomable, but on closer, achievable, practical realities. Lutz is a new point of hope by which Hungarians can acknowledge the greatest Rescue of WWII, and perhaps of all time –in my view useful to describe as Christians empowering Jews. Please accept my immediate apolgy –the losses of Hungarian men, women, and children were unspeakable, and can not be denied nor minimalised. But the life saving that welled from the Glass House can also be a source of “pride,”‘ –as a newer self-knowledge –perhaps as important in Resistance as even the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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