One of the more significant of the thousands of letters of protection issued by the Swiss head of the foreign interests section in the Budapest embassy was one dated 1 July 1944 in favour of Magdalena Grausz, described in some sources as his domestic servant or maid. Carl Lutz fell in love with Magdalena. In April 1945 Carl and Gertrud Lutz were able to return to Switzerland. Carl Lutz "received an official reprimand for his actions in Budapest". At the official level, recognition came only much later. The end of the war provided an opportunity for Gertrud and Carl Lutz to divorce, which they did in 1946. Carl Lutz married Magda Grausz and adopted her baby daughter, Agnes "Agi" Grausz. More than ten years spent looking after those displaced by war had left Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser with a formidable breadth and depth of experience in the organisation, provision and administration of welfare assistance to children traumatised and orphaned by the slaughter and deeper atrocities of war. There was much to be done.
