# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-mantello
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:07:00.267Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-mantello"
name: "George Mantello"
slug: "george-mantello"
description: "George Mantello, a businessman with various diplomatic activities, born into a Jewish family from Transylvania, helped save thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust while working for the Salvadoran consulate in Geneva, Switzerland from 1942 to 1945 under the protection of consul Castellanos Contreras, by providing them with fictive Salvadoran citizenship papers. He publicized in mid-1944 the deportation of Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, which had great impact on rescue, rapidly led to unprecedented large-scale grass root protests by the Swiss people and church, which was a major contributing factor to Hungary's regent Miklós Horthy stopping the transports to Auschwitz."
tagline: "Salvadoran politician (1901–1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/George_Mantello.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1901-12-11"
deathDate: "1992-04-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.3
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.752665333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%BE%2C_%D0%96%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6"
    title: "Мантелло, Жорж"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mandel-Mantello"
    title: "George Mandel-Mantello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mantello"
    title: "George Mantello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mantello"
    title: "George Mantello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%92'%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%92'%D7%94_%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%9C-%D7%9E%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%95"
    title: "ג'ורג'ה מנדל-מנטלו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mantello"
    title: "George Mantello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mantello"
    title: "George Mantello"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q829266"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump