Friedrich Born

He quickly became aware of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, which began after the German Putsch in spring 1944.

He also managed to distribute about 15,000 Schutzbriefe, protection documents issued by the ICRC that prevented the deportation and death of many Hungarian Jews.

[1] After the war, as most of the saviours of Budapest, such as Carl Lutz and Giorgio Perlasca, he returned to his normal life, and kept the rememberings of his actions for himself.

Twenty-four years after his death, in 1987, he was designated as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem.

[2] Only two other Red Cross workers, Roslï Näf and Valdemar Langlet, received the same designation for also saving lives during the war.