Tag: Jewish Rescue

The video explores how Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal Studios and a prominent figure in Hollywood, saved over 1,000 Jews from the Holocaust by using his influence and challenging antisemitism and immigration policies in America during the rise of Nazi Germany.
Seventy-five years ago, 1,354 Jews were rescued and arrived safely in Switzerland from Nazi-occupied Hungary, sparking a controversial history surrounding Rudolf Kastner, their rescuer.
Ari Kaplan, a respected Sabermetrician in Major League Baseball, is also deeply involved in researching the fate of Holocaust rescuer Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved numerous Jews during the Nazi era and disappeared during the Red Army's Siege of Budapest in 1945.