Author: Jorge E. Schindler.
Casa América presents on Monday, February 10 at 6.30 pm in its Simón Bolívar Room the book Más allá de la diplomacia (Beyond Diplomacy) by Jorge E. Schindler. Free admission until capacity is full.
The work narrates from an original and almost unknown Latin American point of view, in the dark times of Europe controlled by Hitler’s Germany, in full development of the Holocaust in a Romania allied to the III Reich and a Poland occupied and oppressed by Nazism. In the middle of this scenario emerges the almost novelistic figure of the Chilean Chargé d’Affaires and Consul in Bucharest, who, contrary to the orders of his government and at the risk of his life, manages to safeguard the lives of 1,200 Poles, mainly Jews, without distinction of creed or race.
Beyond diplomacy, it gives the reader a broad view of historical events which occurred in the Europe of war, but seen from the perspective of a country and a diplomacy which, in principle neutral and distant, is involved for various reasons in one of the events that marked the twentieth century with the greatest brutality.
Will welcome attendees León de la Torre Krais, general director of Casa de América; Rafael Mateo, president of Fundación Chile-España, and Javier Velasco, ambassador of Chile. Jorge E. Schindler, Minister Counsellor of the Chilean Embassy in Portugal, historian and author of the book; Javier Velasco, Ambassador of Chile, and Raluca Maria Mihăilă, Business a.i. Officer of the Romanian Embassy will participate in a colloquium.
Pages: 228
Publisher: Editorial Renacimiento
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788410148765
RPP: 18,90 euros
