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Carl Lutz

Carl Lutz, Swiss vice-consul to Hungary during WWII, credited with saving over 62,000 Jews (died 1975)

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Born
March 30, 1895
Died
February 12, 1975
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1895

About Carl Lutz

Carl Lutz was a Swiss diplomat. He served as the Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest, Hungary, from 1942 until the end of World War II. He is credited with saving over 62,000 Jews during the Second World War in possibly the largest rescue operation of the Holocaust. He was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. Carl Lutz and his wife returned to Switzerland in January 1945 and divorced in 1946, and in 1949 he remarried, to Magda Csányi, who during the war had asked him to protect her and her daughter, Agnes.

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The world when Carl Lutz was born

Carl Lutz was born in 1895. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1895

  • Top movieWorkers Leaving the Lumière Factory (first public film)

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineCuban War of Independence begins
  • Technology milestoneLumière brothers hold first public film screening
  • World population~1.55B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGrover Cleveland
  • U.S. population68.0M

1895 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Carl Lutz's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18952026
Population68.0M341 million

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