more than half of those that were forced into the ghetto in 1944 were sent to concentration camps, starting almost immediately from the establishment of the ghetto. from occupation to liberation the jewish population of budapest was reduced from 200,000 to 70,000 in the ghetto, and about 20,000 housed in specially marked houses outside the ghetto having been granted diplomatic protection by neutral politicians, including raoul wallenberg, who issued protective passports on behalf of the swedish legation, and carl lutz, who did the same via the swiss government. of those that were deported (most of them to a concentration camp on the austrian border), the vast majority were liberated by the advancing red army.