Portrait of Gerhart Feine.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 45672

Photo Designation: RESCUE MISSIONS -- Diplomatic Rescue -- Hungary: Rescue of Budapest Jewry -- Diplomats/Legations -- Other
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eric Saul

Biography: Gerhart Feine (1894-1959), the German consul in Budapest who in the fall of 1944 informed several consular officials at neutral legations in the city about the impending deportation of Budapest Jewry. Feine, who directed the Jewish department of the German plenipotentiary in Hungary, betrayed the confidence of Reich plenipotentiary Edmund Veesenmayer and SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, when he disclosed the plans of the Nazi regime to Raoul Wallenberg, Charles (Carl) Lutz and other neutral consular officials in Budapest. His betrayal was never discovered.

[Source: Saul, Eric. "Visas for Life" exhibition, February 2000.]
Keyword: AMBASSADORS/DIPLOMATS/ENVOYS
CLOSE-UPS
FEINE, GERHART
GERMANS
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS
RESCUERS/RESCUE
RESCUERS/RESCUE (DIPLOMATIC)
STUDIO PORTRAITS
Photo Source: Eric Saul

Copyright: Agency Agreement (No Fees)

Source Record ID: File 36
: Record last modified: 2002-01-08 00:00:00
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