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El Salvador Ambassador Saved Thousands From Nazis

El Salvador Ambassador Saved Thousands From Nazis
José Castellanos's story of helping to save 25,000 Jews by granting bogus nationality certificates during the second world war has been rediscovered.

"He was El Salvador's equivalent of Oskar Schindler, a man who was given a chance to do something about the Holocaust – and took it." Now, six decades later, José Castellanos's story of helping to save 25,000 Jews by granting bogus nationality certificates during the second world war has been rediscovered." (Read the full story in The Guardian)

 

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