Carl Lutz Emlékszoba
In Carl Lutz Emlékszoba—opened in 2005 and designed by Lajos Kozma—Budapest remembers the wartime work of the Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz. The story begins at the same address area on Vadász utca, where the Glass House (Üvegház) once operated: a former glass factory used to shelter Jews during the Holocaust. At one point, around 3,000 people found refuge there and in a neighboring building as Hungarian fascist killers, along with the German Nazis, carried out murder and deportations. Lutz was credited with saving 62,000 Jews through “letters of protection,” and in 1942 he became the head of Switzerland’s foreign interests section in Budapest. Once the Nazis took over in 1944 and deportations accelerated, Lutz negotiated permission to protect 8,000 Hungarian Jews for emigration to Palestine—then, with help from Miklós “Moshe” Krausz, deliberately applied that number far more broadly by misinterpreting it. …
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