In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht: the untold story of the diplomat from El Salvador who saved the lives of 13,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
In 1942, José Arturo Castellanos was the Salvadoran ambassador to Switzerland. Seeing the plight of European Jews trying to flee Nazi persecution, he issued more than 13,000 Salvadoran nationality papers to Jews in Hungary, Romania, France, the Netherlands and Germany.