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Gilberto Bosques Saldívar
Gilberto Bosques Saldívar (b. Chiautla de Tapia, Puebla, 20 July 1892 – 4 July 1995) was a Mexican career diplomat and before that a militant in the Mexican Revolution and a leftist legislator. As a consul in Marseille, Vichy France, Bosques took initiative to rescue tens of thousands of Jews and Spanish Republican exiles from being deported to Nazi Germany or Spain, but his heroism remained unknown to the world at large for some sixty years, until several years after his death at the age of 102
neighborhood in Mexico city. In 2008 this exhibition traveled to Xalapa, Veracruz.
See also.
- Mexican Jews
Bibliography.
- Comisión de Derechos Humanos del Distrito Federal. 2007. Press release announcing that the Human Rights Commission of Mexico City will propose naming a street in honor of Bosques. 24 June 2007.
- "Diario de Xalapa". 2008. Homenajean con fotografías a Gilberto Bosques Saldívar. 21 August 2008
- Garay, Graciela de. 2006. "Gilberto Bosques: El oficio del