One of the most horrific things that happened during the 20th century was World War One. World War One was where Hitler, the leader of Germany, decided that Jews were the worst religion and that everybody who was Jewish should be killed. Many Jewish businesses were torn down, Synagogues were destroyed, and it was total madness. With all this madness somebody had to do something about it. While Carl Lutz isn’t as famous as the other Holocaust upstanders, his actions of housing and taking care of many Jews showed his bravery. Carl Lutz’s life was ordinary, but that would soon change. Lutz was born in Walzenhausen, Switzerland on March 30th 1895. Lutz’s mother and father decided to have nine more kids. In 1913, Carl Lutz decided to go to America to study. He went to the state of Illinois to study the school of trade (Carl Lutz). After his studies in America, Lutz joined the Swiss Diplomatic Service. But Lutz didn’t just decide to start helping the Jews, something had to have motivated him. When the Germans started to invade Hungary, Carl Lutz knew he had to do something about …show more content…
When you are trying to save the whole Jewish population, you can’t just do it on your own, you’ll need some help. One of the people who helped him was his own wife (Lutz Carl). Also, there were many other Holocaust upstanders that helped. There were many things that Lutz did to save the Jews. One of the main things he did was he housed the Jews. He also issued thousands of protection letters to the Jews (Lutz Carl). While he was doing these things he did other things as well for the Jews such as providing the essentials, food and water. His wife helped the Jews with any type of medical attention they needed (Carl Lutz). When Lutz was saving the Jews, that was his only focus. He didn’t even care if he got caught as long as he helped the Jews. During this process Lutz saved approximately over sixty two thousand