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How Bolivia’s ruthless tin baron saved thousands of Jewish refugees | Second world war | The Guardian

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The long read: He has been described as ‘the worst kind of businessman’, but we now know that industrialist Moritz Hochschild also rescued as many as 20,000 Jews from the Nazis

Moritz Hochschild circa 1944. Photograph: Dpa Picture Alliance/Alamy He has been described as ‘the worst kind of businessman’, but we now know that industrialist Moritz Hochschild also rescued as many as 20,000 Jews from the Nazis By Dan Collyns Thu 11 Aug 2022 01.00 EDT Last modified on Fri 26 Jun 2026 13.57 EDT Share Prefer the Guardian on Google M oritz Hochschild was constantly on the move. In the early 1930s, he could be found in the grand hotels of London, New York or Paris, or on the back of a mule, following rough mountain trails in search of mineral seams in the Bolivian Andes. It was

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