Friedrich Born (1903 - 1963) was a Swiss delegate of the International Red Cross Committee (IRCC) in Budapest between May 1944 and January 1945, when he had to leave Hungary following orders of the occupying Red Army. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is historically a committee of Swiss nationals, although non-Swiss nationals have recently been allowed (the committee appoints new members to itself to replace those who resign or die) which leads the international Red Cross movement (often simply known after its symbol... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Workers and Peasants Red Army (Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия, Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya; RKKA or usually simply the Red Army) were the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918 and that in 1922 became the army of the Soviet Union. ...

He already lived in the Hungarian Capital city before his appointment by the IRCC, working as a trader, and orignally came to Budapest as a member of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreing Trade. He quickly beacame aware of the deportation of Hungarian Jews, which began after the German Putsch in spring 1944. Following the strategy of Carl Lutz (the Swiss vice-consul), he recruited up to 3.000 Jews as workers for his offices, granting them protection, and designated several buildings as protected by the IRCC. He also managed to distribute about 15.000 "Schutzbriefe", protection documents issued by the IRCC that prevented the deportation and death of many Hungarian Jews. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... History of the Jews in Hungary concerns the Jews of Hungary and of Hungarian origins. ... Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss Consul in Budapest, Hungary from 1942 until the end of World War II. He had the initiative to save Hungarian Jews from deportation by allowing them to emigrate to Palestine under protection of a Swiss safe-conduct. ... History of the Jews in Hungary concerns the Jews of Hungary and of Hungarian origins. ...

After the war, as most of the saviours of Budapest, such as Carl Lutz and Giorgio Perlasca, he returned to his normal life, and kept the rememberings of his actions for himself. Twenty-four years after his death, in 1987, he was designated as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss Consul in Budapest, Hungary from 1942 until the end of World War II. He had the initiative to save Hungarian Jews from deportation by allowing them to emigrate to Palestine under protection of a Swiss safe-conduct. ... (January 31, 1910–August 15, 1992) was an Italian who posed as the Spanish consul to Hungary in the winter of 1944, and saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis. ... An exterior view of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem. ...

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A short biography (in German) http://www.raoul-wallenberg.de/Retter/F._Born__IKRK_/f._born__ikrk_.html