Mayor Azcón awarded Angel Sanz Briz with Star of Europe

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The Zaragoza City Council has awarded the Star of Europe award to the Spanish diplomat Angel Sanz Briz.

He saved more than 5,000 people from the Jewish holocaust during World War II.

Mayor of Zaragoza Jorge Azcón handed over the award to the daughters of Ángel Sanz Briz during a ceremony in the City hall.

Mayor Azcón said: “What Sanz Briz did as a diplomat in the Hungarian embassy, ​​in the midst of the worst barbarism that human beings have ever known, it’s a real heroism that should be remembered as a act of greatness and bravery that reconciles us with the human being. For this reason, the memory of such an illustrious character must remain always alive as a gigantic lighthouse. It is essential that we remember him along with other people who did not look the other way and that they risked their life to make prevail the sense of humanity facing the suffering of the persecuted”.

Angela Sanz, daughter of the diplomat, said: “To my father, in 1944 in Budapest, at the age of 34, the Aragonese vein came out, courage, humanity and a sense of responsibility to save as many human lives as possible”.

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