Samuel del Campo

Chilean diplomat (1882–1960)

Samuel del Campo

Born| 23 May 1882

Linares, Chile

Died| 1960(1960-00-00) (aged 77–78)

Paris, France

Nationality| Chilean
Occupation| Diplomat
Known for| Righteous Among the Nations

Samuel del Campo (23 May 1882 – 1960)[1] was a Chilean diplomat who was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations for saving 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by issuing them Chilean passports between 1941 and 1943.[2] He and María Edwards are the only Chileans honored as such.[3]

## Biography

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Special Polish refugee ID card issued at Bucharest in 1943 by Samuel del Campo.

Samuel del Campo was born on 23 May 1882, in Chile. He became a diplomat, and beginning in 1941, he worked as the chargé d'affaires for Chile in Bucharest, Romania. By this time, Romania was a dictatorship led by Ion Antonescu and allied with the Axis powers, and Romania took an active part in the Holocaust. As there was no official Polish diplomatic representation in Romania, the representation of Polish citizens was transferred to Chile, still a neutral country during the war.

Del Campo began issuing Chilean passports to Polish Jews, saving them from deportation. He repeatedly pleaded with the Romanian government to save those who he had issued documents to, and according to Romanian historian Anca Tudorancea, “minutes from the Romanian Council of Ministers show that Samuel del Campo became a nuisance at the highest level.”[4] Yad Vashem estimates that Del Campo rescued approximately 1,200 Jews by giving them passports, despite the Chilean government's official non-interference policy. In the spring of 1943, as the tide of war went against the Axis, diplomatic relations between Romania and Chile were severed. Del Campo was subsequently appointed as consul-general in Zürich, but the appointment never came into effect and del Campo left the employ of the Chilean government. He never returned to Chile and died in Paris, France, sometime in 1960.[2]

He was recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations on November 23, 2016, 56 years after his death.[1] In 2021, The Chilean embassy in Bucharest unveiled a plaque in Del Campo's memory in front of the Great Synagogue of Bucharest.[5]

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## References

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1. ^ a b "The Righteous Among the Nations Database: Del Campo Samuel". righteous.yadvashem.org. Yad Vashem. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
2. ^ a b "Yad Vashem to Honor Samuel del Campo, Righteous Among the Nations from Chile, on Sunday". Yad Vashem. 20 October 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
3. ^ "Righteous Among the Nations Department: CHILE" (PDF). yadvashem.org. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
4. ^ Gascon Barbera, Marcel. "Romanian ceremony honors Chilean diplomat who saved over 1,200 Jews in Holocaust". Times of Israel. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
5. ^ "Inauguration of a plaque in memory of former Chilean diplomat Samuel del Campo". Embajada de Chile en Rumania. Retrieved 4 July 2022.

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Latin America during World War II

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* Seguro Obrero massacre
* St. Louis Affair
* Panama Conference
* Battle of the Atlantic
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* Jerónimo Méndez Arancibia
* Alfredo Baldomir
* Fulgencio Batista
* Federico Laredo Brú
* Manuel Ávila Camacho
* Alberto Lleras Camargo
* Samuel del Campo
* Lázaro Cárdenas
* Ramón Castillo
* Pedro Aguirre Cerda
* Manuel de Jesús Troncoso de la Concha
* José Castellanos Contreras
* Eleazar López Contreras
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* José Toribio Merino
* María Edwards McClure
* Eduardo Santos Montejo
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* History of Peru
* History of the Dominican Republic
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* Infamous Decade
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