Letter of Protection in Hungarian and German issued for one Tibor Galle (a nurse in Budapest’s Rock Hospital) and signed by Friedrich Born (“Born Frigyes”).

(HOLOCAUST).

17th January

Budapest

1945

Single printed page on letterhead with manuscript entries and autograph signature.

Friedrich Born (1903-63) was a Swiss delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Budapest between May 1944 and January 1945, upon which time he was forced to leave Hungary by order of the occupying Soviet Red Army. Born originally came to Budapest as a member of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Trade and quickly became aware of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, which began soon after the German occupation in Spring 1944. Following the strategy of Carl Lutz, Born recruited up to 3,000 Jews and granted them protection by posing them as workers for his ICRC needs. These ICRC protection documents prevented the deportation and murder of numerous Hungarian Jews. In 1987 Born was posthumously honored by Yad Vashem as one of the “Righteous Among the Nations.”