[our members will of course know that del Campo has been discussed with
some frequency on this list. Here is Edgar's blog post from last year:
Samuel del Campo's Rescue Operation in Czernowitz
http://czernowitz.blogspot.de/2016/06/samuel-del-campos-rescue-operation.html]
Jim
Chilean diplomat who saved over 1,200 Jews honored as Righteous Gentile
Samuel del Campo, chargé d’affaires at Chilean embassy in Bucharest,
issued passports against regulations to save Polish Jews
By JTA
Today, 8:17 pm
RIO DE JANEIRO — A Chilean diplomat who saved over 1,200 Jews during the
Holocaust was honored as a Righteous Gentile.
Samuel del Campo, who served as chargé d’affaires at the Chilean embassy
in Bucharest, assisted Jews by issuing them Chilean passports – mainly
to Polish Jews in Czernowitz – between 1941 and 1943.
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A relative of Del Campo received a medal and certificate of honor from
Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial officials during a ceremony held on Sunday
in Jerusalem. Milenko Skoknic, director general of the Chilean Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, also attended.
The diplomat began to issue Chilean passports for Jews of Polish
nationality in October 1941, when a ghetto was established in the city
of Czernowitz, and deportations to ghettos and camps in Transnistria began.
In the absence of an official Polish representation in the country, the
representation of the interests of Polish citizens in Romania was
transferred to Chile. Members of the Kiesler family of Czernowitz and
the Rosenthal family from Bucharest were saved by Del Campo.
After the deportations from Czernowitz to Transnistria resumed in June
1942, Del Campo continued to intervene with the Romanian authorities in
favor of “the Jews under the protection of Chile.”
Based on recorded minutes from discussions in the Council of Ministers
of Romania, Yad Vashem was able to estimate that approximately 1,200
Jews received Chilean passports providing them with protection against
the deportations.
In the spring of 1943, diplomatic relations between Chile and Romania
were severed, and Switzerland began to represent the interests of Chile
in the country.
The documents that Del Campo issued were clearly not in line with the
Chilean government’s policy; when Swiss envoys asked the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Chile to clarify the policy of the ministry regarding
the granting of Chilean passports, they were told that “they would
prefer not to grant new passports without the approval of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of Chile.”
Del Campo was appointed consul-general in Zurich, but the appointment
never came into effect, and he never returned to serve in Chile’s
Foreign Ministry. He died in Paris in the 1960s.
Samuel del Campo and Maria Edwards de Errazuriz are the only Chilean
Righteous Gentile recognized by Yad Vashem.
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