In this article we seek to extend the literature on Holocaust geographies through a case study of geographies of rescue in Budapest in 1944. Drawing on mixed qualitative and quantitative methods, we place Raoul Wallenberg and the Swedish legation’s rescue work within the multiple geographies of wartime Budapest, as well as offer broader reflections on the value and limits of spatial analytical methods within geographies of the Holocaust. Working with an historical GIS of the Budapest ghetto, a database created from the largest surviving Swedish list and a post–war count of survivors, as well as the personal narratives of survivors, the article examines how social status and social networks may contribute to explain the profiles of those rescued. Rather than topographic distance being key, the article argues that another geography–one of socioeconomic power–was more significant. We see this article making two main contributions to the current literature. Firstly, it interrogates ideas of distance as both a topographic and a topological category, as well as signaling the need to consider both abstract space and lived place in developing ‘integrated’ geographies of the Holocaust. Secondly, in doing this, it explores the possibilities and limitations of a range of spatial–analytical tools and approaches to interrogate geographies of rescue, and other areas of interest to historical geographers.

本文旨在通过1944年布达佩斯救援地理案例研究来扩展关于大屠杀地理的文献。基于定性和定量混合方法，我们将拉乌尔·瓦伦贝格和瑞典使馆的救援工作置于战时布达佩斯的多个地区中，并提供了对大屠杀地理范围内空间分析方法的价值和局限性的广泛思考。本文使用布达佩斯犹太人聚居区的历史GIS，从最大的幸存瑞典人名单创建的数据库以及战后幸存者的数量以及幸存者的个人叙述，探讨了社会地位和社交网络如何有助于解释获救人员的资料。地形距离不是关键，该文章认为，另一种地理区域-一种社会经济实力-更重要。我们看到这篇文章对当前文献做出了两个主要贡献。首先，它询问距离既是地形类别又是拓扑类别的想法，并暗示需要同时考虑抽象空间并居住在发展大屠杀“综合”地区的地方。其次，在此过程中，它探讨了各种空间分析工具和方法的可能性和局限性，这些工具和方法用于询问救援地理以及历史地理学家感兴趣的其他领域。