Eduardo Propper de Callejón
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Eduardo Propper de Callejón (9 April 1895 – 11 January 1972) was a Spanish
Occupied France during World War II
between 1940 and 1944.
He was the father-in-law of the British banker Raymond Bonham Carter and the maternal grandfather of the British actress Helena Bonham Carter.[1][2]
Career
Propper de Callejón was
Royaumont, he declared the castle to be his main residence so that it would be treated in the same privileged way as the accommodation of any other diplomat. Among the art works thus saved are a triptych of Van Eyck (one of Adolf Hitler
's favourite painters).
In July 1940, he issued from the Spanish Consulate in
.Family
Propper de Callejón's father, Maximilian "Max" Propper, was a
de Rothschild (Baroness Élie de Rothschild
, 1916–2003) of the prominent Rothschild family (who had also married within the von Springer family in the 19th century).
Legacy
He never gained public recognition for his heroic acts before his death in 1972 in London after an operation.[4]
In 2007, he was officially recognised as a
Nazi
occupation of France during an interview with Felix Pfeifle for the film Felix Austria (2012).
See also
- Francoist Spain and the Holocaust
References
- ^ Costa, Maddy (3 November 2006). "It's all gone widescreen". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ Barber, Lynn (20 April 1997). "Helena Bonham Carter: 'Couldn't she just wear a babygro?'". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ Pfefferman, Naomi (30 July 2008). "Helena Bonham Carter: Jewish mother?". The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 2 September 2016.
- ^ "Eduardo Propper y Callejón". The Times. 29 January 1972. p. 14.
- ^ Frazer, Jenni (8 February 2008). "How Helena's grandfather was finally recognised as a true hero". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 10 February 2008.
External links
- Surach, Stephanie. "Eduardo Propper de Callejón Honored by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation". IRWF.
- "Eduardo Propper de Callejón". Yad Vashem.
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