Sign for a Swedish Red Cross Safe House in Budapest
48 x 37 cm. Folded. In great conditon.
A sign for a Swedish Red Cross Safe House in Budapest. . This is a sign demarcating the building in question as a safe house under the control and authority of the Swedish Red Cross. Stated: "This apartment is under the protection of the Swedish Red Cross and Royal Swedish Embassy", written in Russian, French and Hungarian . These declarations were issued in Budapest in 1944 by Raul Wallenberg and Valdemar Langlet , the appointed Chairman of Swedish Red Cross in Hungary, as one part of an organized effort to protect Jews from persecution and deportation to Auschwitz. Extremely scarce.
Price: €20,000.00