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Indian Businessman Saved Austrian Jews during the Holocaust
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Jamie Shapiro - In 1938, Indian businessman Kundan Lal Gupta, 46, traveled to an Austrian hospital to see a medical specialist, where he met a young Jewish couple, Lucy and Alfred Wachsler. Describing to him how difficult life was becoming for Jews under Nazi rule, Gupta decided to help them get out before it was too late. At that stage, Jewish people were allowed to leave the country with their families providing they had a work visa for a job in another country. Gupta set up companies in India with the specific purpose of providing work to 14 Austrian Jews from five families. He offered jobs that did not exist in businesses that were made up, carefully filling out all the paperwork for officials. The story was unknown until his grandson, Vinay Gupta, published a book in 2024 on his grandfather's efforts called A Rescue in Vienna.