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Last Chance Project Diplomats Per Anger, Second Secretary of the Swedish Legation in Budapest József Antall, Sr., Commissioner on War Refugees, Hungarian Ministry of the Interior José Maria Barreto, Consul-General at the Peruvian Consulate in Geneva, Switzerland Dr. Manuel Antonio Muñoz Borrero, Consul at the Ecuadorian Consulate in Stockholm, Sweden Lars Berg, Attaché at Swedish Legation in Budapest Hiram Bingham, IV, Vice Consul in the visa section at the American Consulate in Marseilles Colonel José Arturo Castellanos, Consul-General for El Salvador in Geneva, Switzerland Eduardo Propper de Callejon, First Secretary of the Spanish Embassy in Paris Aracy de Carvalho-Guimaraes Rosa, Chief of the Passport Office of the Brazilian Consulate in Hamburg, Germany Samuel del Campo, Chargé d’Affaires at the Chilean Representation in Bucharest, Romania Carl Ivar Danielsson, Minister at the Swedish Legation in Budapest Georg Duckwitz, Maritime Attaché at the German Embassy in Copenhagen Dr. Harald Feller, Chargé d’Affaires at the Swiss Legation in Budapest Dr. Ho Feng-Shan, First Secretary at the Chinese Legation in Vienna Captain Francis “Frank” Foley, Passport officer at the British Embassy in Berlin Varian Fry, representative of the American Emergency Rescue Committee Carlos Sampaio Garrido, Minister Plenipoteniary at the Portuguese Legation in Budapest Elena Hohenzolleren, Queen Mother of Romania Henri and Denise Jourdan, Cultural attaché at the French Embassy in Berlin and his wife Constantin Karadja, Consul General at the Romanian Consulate in Berlin 1932-1941; Director of the Consular Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bucharest, Romania 1941-1944 Elow Kihlgren, Consul at the Swedish Consulate in Genoa Joseph Kolkman, Honorary Vice-Consul at the Dutch Consulate in France; later of the Offices Néerlandais Valdemar and Nina Langlet, Cultural attaché at the Swedish Legation in Budapest and his wife Carl and Gertrud Lutz, Vice-Consul and Chief of Foreign Interests at the Swiss Legation in Budapest Florian Manoliu, Economic Counselor at the Romanian Legation in Bern Pacifico Marchesini, Italian diplomat at the Hague, Netherlands Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou, Acting Regent of Greece Giorgio Perlasca, Acting Consul-General of the Spanish Legation in Hungary Her Serene Highness Princess Alice of Battenberg Ernst Prodolliet, Vice-Consul at the Swiss Consulate in Bregrenz, Austria and later Amsterdam Franjo Punčuh, Honorary Consul at the Yugoslav Legation in Warsaw Sebastián Romero Radigales, Consul-General at the Spanish Legation in Athens Konstanty Rokicki, Vice-Consul at the Polish Consulate in Bern Monsignor Angelo Rotta, Apostolic Nuncio of the Apostolic Nunciature at Budapest Ángel Sanz Briz, Chargé d’Affaires at the Spanish Legation in Budapest Henryk Sławik, Director of the Citizens’ Committee for Help for Polish Refugees Dr. Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Consul-General at the Portuguese Consulate in Bordeaux Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas, Ambassador at the Brazilian Embassy in Paris Jan Spišiak, Minister at the Slovak Consulate in Budapest Chiune Sugihara, Consul at the Japanese Consulate in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania Selahattin Ülkümen, Consul-General at Turkish Consulate in Rhodes (Italy) Father Gennaro Verolino, Secretary to the Apostolic Nuncio at the Apostolic Nunciature in Budapest François de Vial, Attached to the French Embassy at the Holy See (Vatican) Dimitrios Vlastaris, Director of Alien Registration, Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vladimír Vochoč, Consul at the Czechoslovak Consul in Marseilles, France Ernst Vonrufs, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Interests at the Swiss Legation in Budapest Raoul Wallenberg, Special Attaché at the Swedish Legation in Budapest Peter Zürcher, Director of the Department of Foreign Interests at the Swiss Legation in Budapest Jan Zwartendijk, Acting Consul at the Dutch Consulate in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania Filmmakers Launch Search for WWII Testimonies The Joyce D. Mandell Rescuers Collection of testimonies about righteous diplomats turned rescuers during the Holocaust to be showcased at USC Shoah Foundation this Fall The Rescuers-Last Chance Project is a race against time to document further untold, first-hand stories of the numerous remaining diplomats and seeks the public’s assistance LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (Memorial Day–Monday, May 31) Fifteen hours of interviews related to a group of World War II-era diplomats who defied official policies to save hundreds of thousands from the Holocaust are to be integrated into the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. The interviews, featured in filmmaker Michael W. King and Joyce D. Mandell’s award-winning documentary The Rescuers, describe the actions of thirteen diplomats—including Swede Raoul Wallenberg and Americans Varian Fry and Hiram Bingham—whose tireless efforts to save Jews and others earned them the status of “Righteous Among the Nations,” an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their careers and lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. The interviews being integrated into the USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive are the inaugural collection of testimonies to be named the Joyce D. Mandell Rescuers Collection and are the world’s largest-known World War II filmed historical compilation dedicated to testimony about the “Righteous Diplomats.” The collection will be made available to the public through the Visual History Archive in the fall in conjunction with the 82nd anniversary of the outbreak of World War II. “We can all be uplifted by the fact that the stories of these rescuers are themselves being rescued for posterity. Now they can inform and inspire future generations just as they are doing for viewers today,” said Stephen Smith, Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation. Among those featured in the Joyce D. Mandell Rescuers Collection are testimonies from survivors and relatives who recount the stories of the following diplomats: German diplomat (and Nazi Party member) Georg F. Duckwitz in Copenhagen; Americans Varian Fry and Hiram Bingham in Marseilles; Japanese Consul Chiune Sugihara and Dutch Jan Zwartendijk in Kaunas; Turkish Consul Selahattin Ülkümen in Rhodes; British Captain Frank Foley in Berlin; Polish diplomat Henryk Sławik in Budapest; Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who helped coordinate rescue efforts in Budapest in 1944 along with Monsignor Angelo Rotta, Papal Nuncio to Hungary; Portuguese Consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes in France; and Swiss Consul Carl Lutz in Budapest. The collection also features a segment from His Royal Highness Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales, who reveals a little-known story about his grandmother Princess Alice of Battenberg, and Sir Martin Gilbert. In a related development, Michael W. King is expanding his research efforts with support from the Andrew J. and Joyce D. Mandell Family Foundation and USC Shoah Foundation to identify additional survivors and relatives to document the stories of additional diplomats with Righteous Among the Nations status. These new stories will be added to the Joyce D. Mandell Rescuers Collection. “This is our last chance to document first-hand accounts related to diplomats who were at the center of the 20th century’s most unforgettable events,” King said. A list of the diplomats the team is looking to profile is below. In what King calls “a race against time,” a team of researchers is currently working to identify people who either knew the thirty diplomats or Holocaust survivors who benefited from their assistance. King and Joyce D. Mandell are leading the new initiative. King, an adjunct professor at Arizona State University’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School is collaborating with Irena Steinfeldt-Levy, former Director of Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations department. The launch of King and Mandell’s latest collection effort coincides with the 10th anniversary of the release of The Rescuers documentary, King’s award-winning film, nominated in the Outstanding Documentary category at the NAACP Image Awards in 2011. The film, which will stream on Tubi and Amazon in June, was inspired by the work of British historian Sir Martin Gilbert and his 2003 book The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust. The Rescuers research team is looking to speak with anyone who may have information about the additional Righteous Among the Nations diplomats to be included in the expanding Joyce D. Mandell Rescuers Collection. Those with pertinent information are encouraged to visit www.rescuersdoc.com A partial list of the Righteous Diplomats: Brazilians Aracy De Carvalho (Germany) and Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas (France); Chilean Samuel del Campo (Romania); Chinese Feng-Shan Ho (Austria); Czech Vladimir Vochoč (France); Dutch Joseph Kolkman (France); Ecuadorian Manuel Antonio Muñoz Borrero (Sweden); El Salvadoran José Castellanos Contreras (Switzerland); French François de Vial (Italy) and Henri and Denise Jourdan (Germany); Greek Archbishop Damaskinos Papandreou and Dimitrios Vlastaris; Hungarian József Antall, Sr.; Italians Pacifico Marchesini (The Netherlands), Giorgio Perlasca, Monsignor Angelo Rotta and Father Gennaro Verolino (Hungary); Peruvian José Mária Baretto (Switzerland); Pole Konstanty Rokicki (Switzerland); Portuguese Carlos Sampaio Garrido (Hungary); Romanians Constantin Karadja (Germany) Florian Manoliu (Hungary) and Elena Hohenzolleren, Queen Mother of Romania; Slovak Ján Spišiak (Hungary); Spaniards Ángel Sanz Briz (Hungary), Eduardo Propper de Callejón (France), Sebastián de Romero Radigales (Greece), and Dr. Josė Ruiz Santaella (Germany); Swedes Per Anger, Lars Berg, Carl Ivar Danielsson, Valdemar and Nina Langlet, Raoul Wallenberg (Hungary) and Elow Kihlgren (Italy); Swiss Harald Feller, Carl and Gertrud Lutz, and Peter Zürcher (Hungary) and Ernst Prodolliet (Austria); Slovenian Franjo Punčuh (Poland) Contact the Filmmakers [email protected] Saatja: Keegan Luther <[email protected]> Saadetud: 23.09.2021 00:57 Adressaat: KUL min <[email protected]> Teema: Diplomatic Rescuers during the Holocaust Manused: Last Chance Diplomats.pdf; The Rescuers-Last Chance Project.pdf Dear Sir or Madam, My name is Keegan Luther and I am the project cooridinator on the Rescuers - Last Chance Project. I hope that you are able to assist us in our efforts to find survivors who can provide first-hand accounts of diplomatic rescue during the Holocaust. It is our intention to interview family members, survivors, and Second Generation survivors, as appropriate, to document the important role played by righteous diplomats in this tragic chapter of history. Given the flight and dispersal of Jews and other refugees from 1933-1945, we are asking that you disseminate the list of all the diplomats (see below) included in this current endeavor. We believe survivors are still out there who can tell these stories, but we need your help to reach them. We arecollaborating with Irena Steinfeldt-Levy, former Director of Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations department. The Rescuers - Last Chance Project is being developed, researched and produced by Michael King Productions in association with the USC/Shoah Foundation and the Andrew J. and Joyce D. Mandell Family Foundation. Michael W. King and Joyce D. Mandell, creators and producers of the 2011 award-winning documentary The Rescuers featuring renowned historian Sir Martin Gilbert, lead this new project. The Rescuers explores the little-known story of diplomats who facilitated the survival of those persecuted during the Holocaust. We are currently working to identify those associated with—be they survivors or family members—diplomats who’ve been recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. We are in a race against time to collect these stories of service. It is our “last chance” to document first-hand accounts of this chapter of the 20thcentury’s most indelible events. Please see the attached press release for further information. This project will contribute to The Joyce D. Mandell Rescuers Collection at the USC/Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. We look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Keegan Luther, Project Coordinator Rescuers - Last Chance Project “The Rescuers” (IMDb) www.rescuersdoc.com www.michaelkingproductionsllc.com Mobile: +1 (480) 309-3007 Email: [email protected]