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Ángel Sanz Briz

Spanish diplomat and humanitarian (–)

Ángel Sanz-Briz

Born28 September

Zaragoza, Spain

Died11 June () (aged&#;69)

Rome, Italy

Resting placeCemetery of Torrero, Zaragoza, Spain
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OccupationDiplomat
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Ángel Sanz-Briz (28 September – 11 June ) was a Spanish diplomat and humanitarian.

Sanz - Briz is credited with saving more than 5, Jews in German-occupied Hungary from the Holocaust in the later stages of World War II.[1][2]

For his actions, Sanz-Briz has been referred to as "the Angel of Budapest" and the "Spanish Schindler".[3][4]

Early life

Sanz-Briz was born on 28 September in Zaragoza,[5][6] the youngest of four sons and one daughter of Felipe Sanz, a merchant, and Pilar Briz.[7] He attended the Colegio Escuelas Pías in Zaragoza,[7] then earned a degree in law at the Complutense University of Madrid.[6]

In , he married Adela Quijano y Secades, with whom he had five children.

Diplomatic career

Sanz Briz began his diplomatic career with the Spanish Foreign Ministry in [7] His first diplomatic posting was to Cairo, Egypt.[8]

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, Sanz volunteered for the Nationalists in opposition to the socialist government of Francisco Largo Caballero.

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Sanz served as a truck driver in the Cuerpo de Ejército Marroquí, a unit of Francisco Franco's army created in and commanded by General Juan Yagüe. Unknowingly, Sanz was part of the same side of the Italian Giorgio Perlasca, who would be his main partner during World War II in Budapest.[9]

On 1 April , almost a year after the start of the Civil War, he was fired by the government of the Second Spanish Republic.

However, he was reinstated on 19 August [7]

Actions in Hungary

Sanz-Briz began his posting as the first secretary at the Spanish Embassy in Budapest, Hungary, in [3]

In the summer of , Sanz-Briz was appointed the embassy's chargé d'affaires. Shortly after the persecution of Hungarian Jews began, he offered on behalf of the Spanish government to provide passports to Jews of Spanish origin, and to negotiate for their protection.

He was authorised by his superiors to extend these rights to Jews; however, Sanz-Briz extended his efforts to Jewish families instead.[10]

He lied to the Hungarian authorities and said that Spain, under the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, had given Spanish citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in Primo de Rivera had issued such a decree on 20 December but it had been canceled in , a fact the Hungarian authorities were not aware of.

Sanz Briz dutifully informed the Spanish Foreign Ministry of his actions, that were deliberately permitted by Madrid through administrative silence, a typical diplomatic procedure used to not compromise the chancellery.[11]

In addition, Sanz-Briz rented buildings and apartments around Budapest at his own expense to shelter for the Jews to whom he had issued papers.

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    • He placed Spanish flags at these locations, which survivors referred to as the "Spanish houses" and posted notices indicating that they were offshore properties belonging to the Spanish embassy.[10]

    Between June and December , according to Giorgio Perlasca,[12] he and his assistants issued fake Spanish papers to 5, Jews, saving them from deportation to concentration camps.[3][13]

    The Spanish government ordered Sanz to leave Hungary in December [10] In , as the Red Army approached Budapest, he followed government orders to leave for Switzerland.

    He was replaced by the Italian Giorgio Perlasca, who pretended to be a Spanish consul and continued to issue Spanish visas and to patrol the safehouse system for Jews set up by Sanz Briz.[14][15]

    Post-war and later life

    After the war, Sanz-Briz continued his diplomatic career, with much of his actions during the war unknown, even to his family.

    He was posted to San Francisco and Washington, D.C., Ambassador to Lima, Bern, Bayonne, Guatemala, The Hague, Brussels and China (, where he became the first Spanish Ambassador). In he was sent to Rome as Ambassador of Spain to the Holy See, where he died on 11 June [16]

    Sanz Briz himself tells how he was able to save the lives of so many Jews, in Federico Ysart's book Los judíos en España ().

    He is also the subject of the Spanish television series El ángel de Budapest, based on Diego Carcedo's book Un español frente al Holocausto ("A Spaniard against the Holocaust").[17]

    Recognition and legacy

    On 8 October , Yad Vashem recognized Ángel Sanz-Briz as a Righteous Among the Nations.[10]

    In , he was recognized by the Holocaust Museum Yad Vashem of the State of Israel, who gave his family the title of Righteous Among the Nations.

    In the Government of Hungary gave him the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.[18]

    In , a street in Óbuda-Békásmegyer in Budapest was renamed Angel Sanz Briz Avenue. Sanz-Briz was also honored with a statue.[19]

    Sanz Briz has been caught up in modern Spain's debate about the legacy of Francoist Spain and the regime's actions during the Holocaust.

    In , Committee on Culture and Sports&#;[es] in the Spanish Senate rejected a proposal by far-right party Vox to commemorate Sanz Briz.

    Angel sanz briz biography channel 7 Retrieved 24 February Image source, Getty Images. He was authorised by his superiors to extend these rights to Jews; however, Sanz-Briz extended his efforts to Jewish families instead. Medal of Freedom Recipients.

    Vox argued that Sanz Briz acted with the knowledge and direction of the Franco-led Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Left-wing parties, however, accused Vox of attempting to "whitewash Francoism" by associating Sanz Briz's actions with the Franco regime.[20]

    See also

    References

    1. ^Berendt, Joanna (26 July ).

      "Auschwitz Artifacts to Go on Tour, Very Carefully". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 February

    2. ^García, Isidro González (3 October ). "El silencio y la soledad de un gran diplomático: Ángel Sanz Briz". El País. Retrieved 31 May
    3. ^ abc"The Angel of Budapest: Ángel Sanz Briz".

      Library of Congress. 17 January Retrieved 22 June

    4. ^Julio Martín Alarcón (10 October ). El ángel de Budapest. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España. pp.&#;–. ISBN&#;.

      Angel sanz briz biography channel Library of Congress. Medal of Honor Recipients. He lied to the Hungarian authorities and said that Spain, under the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera , had given Spanish citizenship to descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain in Sans-Briz died on June 11, , in Rome.

      Retrieved 24 February

    5. ^Paul R. Bartrop (6 June ). Resisting the Holocaust: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors: Upstanders, Partisans, and Survivors. ABC-CLIO. pp.&#;–. ISBN&#;. Retrieved 24 February
    6. ^ abSolomon Gaon; M. Mitchell Serels (1 July ).

      Del fuego: Sephardim and the Holocaust. Sepher-Hermon Press. ISBN&#;.

    7. ^ abcd"Angel Sanz Briz". Diccionario biográfico español.

      Angel sanz briz biography channel 6 Religious Figures. Sanz Briz left Budapest in November , ordered out by his superiors in Madrid, who feared he would suffer reprisals from the approaching Soviet army, due to Spain's help for the Germans on the Eastern front. When the persecution of the Jews of Hungary was at its peak, starting May , similar to other diplomats of neutral countries, stationed in Budapest, Sans-Briz sought to protect Jews which in his case claimed a Spanish origin. Sans-Briz died on June 11, , in Rome.

      Real Academia de la Historia. Retrieved 22 June

    8. ^"Portrait of Spanish ambassador Angel Sanz-Briz". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
    9. ^"Ángel Sanz Briz, un héroe en Budapest". 23 March Retrieved 4 October
    10. ^ abcd"Ángel Sanz-Briz".

      Yad Vashem.

      Georg ferdinand duckwitz: Business Icons. Retrieved 21 June Retrieved 22 June Authority control databases.

      Retrieved 23 June

    11. ^Entrevista a Juan Carlos Sanz Briz, Hijo del "Ángel de Budapest". Archived from the original on 12 December Retrieved 4 October &#; via YouTube.
    12. ^"Oral history interview with Giorgio Perlasca". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Part 2 of 5.
    13. ^"Madrid to dedicate one of its streets to the memory of the "Angel of Budapest"".

      The Diplomat in Spain. 5 September

    14. ^Green, David B. (15 August ).

    15. Georg ferdinand duckwitz
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      18. "This Day in Jewish History A Fake Diplomat Who Saved 5, Jews Dies". Haaretz.

    18. ^"Israeli orchestra honors Italian who saved 5, Jews from Nazis". The Times of Israel.
    19. ^"El silencio y la soledad de un gran diplomático: Ángel Sanz Briz". El País. 3 October
    20. ^Society The ‘Angel of Budapest’ becomes immortal in the Hungarian capital[permanent dead link&#;] 12/ 11/ at Accessed 5 January
    21. ^"Homenaje a Angel Sanz Briz, el "Schindler español"".

      . 29 October Retrieved 31 May

    22. ^"Tribute to Ángel Sanz Briz". Foreign Ministry of Spain. Archived from the original on 24 October Retrieved 9 August
    23. ^Carnicero, Laura (17 March ). "El Congreso rechaza conmemorar a Ángel Sanz Briz". El Periódico de Aragón. Retrieved 21 June

    External links

    Media related to Ángel Sanz-Briz at Wikimedia Commons