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Charles Lutz, a wartime Consul General for Switzerland in Budapest, who risked his life to save thousands of Jews from the Nazi gas chambers, was honored here for his services to Hungarian Jewry. His services were lauded by representatives of the American Joint Distribution Committee and the Jewish Agency at a dinner given in his […]https://www.jta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/jta-long-logo-bw.jpg600315