Legacy and Honors
Lutz saved the lives of tens of thousands of people. As in the case of Paul Grüninger, however, his achievements were not immediately recognized in Switzerland. Soon after the war, he had first been criticized by the government for having exceeded his authority, as officials were fearful of endangering Switzerland's neutral status. In 1958, as part of Swiss national rethinking of the war years, Lutz was "rehabilitated" in terms of public reputation, and his achievements were honored.
- 1963 a street in Haifa, Israel was named after him.
- 1964, Lutz was the first Swiss national named to the list of “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad Vashem, the Jewish people’s memorial to the Holocaust.
- 1991, a memorial to him was erected at the entrance to the old Budapest ghetto (see photo above).
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