Szalai, Pál, 1915-1994
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Name (Hebrew)
סאלאי, פאל, 1915-1994
Name (Latin)
Szalai, Pál, 1915-1994
Other forms of name
Sterling, Paul, 1915-1994
Date of birth
1915
Date of death
1994
Other designation
Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
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Sources of Information
- Szekeres, J. A pesti gettók 1945 januári megmentése, 1997:t.p. (Szalai Pál) p. 21, etc. (b. 1915; member of Nyilas-party, saved many Jewish lives in 1944/45; died in Los Angeles?)
Wikipedia description:
Pál Szalai (September 3, 1915 – January 16, 1994) also spelled Pál Szalay and later anglicized as Paul Sterling was a high-ranking Hungarian police officer and a member of the Arrow Cross Party. In 1945, together with Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, Szalai helped save hundreds of Hungarian Jews in the Budapest ghetto. In 2009, he was honored by Israel as Righteous among the Nations.
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