Introduction to the project: Secret Swiss Holocaust-era Lifesaving El Salvador Citizenship Certificates

A public discussion has been created to invite people to join this project.

See http://www.geni.com/discussions/102357

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A FORGOTTEN SUITCASE: THE MANTELLO RESCUE MISSION

You may have relatives who were issued Salvadoran Citizenship Certificates in an attempt to protect them during the Holocaust.

A list of the people to whom the certificates were issued can be found at

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/mantello/list

Images of over 1000 of the issued certificates can be found at

http://resources.ushmm.org/inquery/uia_query.php/photos/key/mantell...

[Please note - those pages may be slow to load.]

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I have created a project to honour those who issued the certificates, and those to whom the certificates were issued.

If this subject interests you, please click to Follow the project at

http://www.geni.com/projects/Secret-Swiss-Holocaust-era-Lifesaving-...

You will then be able to add your relatives' profiles to the project - and please do so.

Please note that only public profiles can be added to projects - so please make private profiles public first.

You might also consider using the person's certificate as a profile picture where you have no other picture of the person.

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This is a major project - given the large number of certificates that were issued - and spans Europe.

Let's see how many of the certificates that were issued we can identify with Geni profiles and add to the project.

For more information, please take a look at the project at

http://www.geni.com/projects/Secret-Swiss-Holocaust-era-Lifesaving-...

And search at http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/mantello/list to see if your relatives were issued with a Salvadoran Citizenship certificate that you may not have known anything about!