Budapest Road Named After Spanish Diplomat Who Saved Jews During Holocaust
- 19 Oct 2015 9:00 AM
A road in Aquincum, in the third district of Budapest, was named at a ceremony after Angel Sanz Briz, a Spanish diplomat who saved the lives of Jews during the Holocaust. Addressing the ceremony, Gergely Gulyás, deputy speaker of parliament, noted that the diplomat saved over 5,000 Hungarians. As such, he was the embodiment of the Spanish saying “Do good, regardless of whom you do it to,” Gulyás said.
Gulyás said that while it was no secret that the Hungarian authorities had “participated in the implementation of the vilest deeds of mankind,” there were Hungarian individuals and foreign diplomats who had “chosen the path of resistance and to save lives”.
Angel Sanz Briz (1910-1980) served as charge d’affaires in Hungary in 1944, and without prior authorisation from Madrid he rescued Hungarian Jews by housing them in the protected Spanish mission and by providing them with Spanish passports. The diplomat was later awarded Israel’s highest honour, the Righteous Among the Nations award.
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