Lunch and Learn: El Salvador & the Holocaust

When

March 2, 2019

11:30 am - 1:30 pm

Where

Roth Center for Jewish Life
5 Occom Ridge, Hanover, NH, 03755

Event Type

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Lunch and Learn:
El Salvador & the Holocaust

Presented by John Lamperti
Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College
Saturday, March 2 at 11:30 amHear the story of El Salvador’s Holocaust heroes.

“It must be clearly established that San Salvador is the only state to overcome any hesitancy and to undertake an active rescue operation.” (Carl Lutz, Swiss Ambassador in Budapest, 1944.) But what did El Salvador do? And why is Salvadoran Colonel Castellanos honored in Yad Vashem?