Glass House (Budapest)

The Glass House (Hungarian: Üvegház) was a building used by the Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz to help Jews in Budapest during the Holocaust.

At one time, about 3,000 Jews found refuge at the Glass House and in a neighboring building from large numbers of Hungarian fascist, antisemitic murderers and the German Nazis.

The building, that had once been a glass factory, is located at 29 Vadász Street,[1] not far from the large and well known Saint Stephen's Basilica and Hungary's Parliament.

Carl Lutz is credited with saving the lives of 62,000 Jews from the Holocaust by issuing "letters of protection"—a life-saving diplomatic device.

[2] In partnership with Miklos "Moshe" Krausz,[3][4] Lutz then deliberately misinterpreted his permission for 8,000 as applying to families rather than individuals, and proceeded to issue tens of thousands of additional protective letters, all of them bearing a number between one and 8,000.