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José Arturo Castellanos Contreras (23 December 1893 — 18 June 1977) was a Salvadoran Army colonel and diplomat who, while working as El Salvador's Consul General for Geneva during World War II, and in conjunction with Jewish-Romanian businessman György Mandl, helped save up to 40,000 Central European Jews, most of them from ...
Sep 3, 2017 · The story of Col. José Arturo Castellanos - the Salvadoran diplomat who defied the nazis and saved thousands of Jewish lives during the holocaust - as told by his Canadian grandchildren...
José Arturo Castellanos Contreras (San Vicente, El Salvador, December 23, 1893 — San Salvador, June 18, 1977) was a Salvadoran army colonel and diplomat who, while working as El Salvador’s Consul General for Geneva during WWII, and in conjunction with a Jewish-Hungarian businessman named György Mandl (George Mandel), helped save up to ...
Jul 31, 2017 · LIMA, Peru — José Arturo Castellanos was a Catholic from El Salvador who, during the Second World War, was sent as a diplomat to Europe. Through courage and cunning, Castellanos helped save...
Aug 15, 2020 · The story of José Castellanos Contreras, the Salvadoran diplomat who risked his life to save up to 40,000 Central European Jews from Nazi extermination.
Jan 28, 2019 · Two men – one a diplomat from El Salvador, the other a Romanian-Jewish businessman – hatched a plan that kept many Jews out of Auschwitz, yet their story is only known today thanks to a Central American beauty pageant in the 1970s. George Mantello, left, and José Arturo Castellanos. Credit: Yad Vashem.
José Arturo Castellanos of El Salvador saved thousands of victims of the Nazis during WWII. This website documents the journey of his grandchildren, filmmakers Alvaro & Boris Castellanos who travel the world tell the story of their grandfather's heroic rescue of thousands from the horrors of the holocaust.
