Rezs Kasztner
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Kasztner S Train
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Author : Anna Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Kasztner S Train written by Anna Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final Solution at its terrible apex, and tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews being sent to Auschwitz every month, the two men agreed to allow 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other manoeuvrings, Kasztner may have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. For his troubles, Kasztner was later judged, falsely, as having 'sold his soul to the devil'. Prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957. Part political thriller, part love story, and part legal drama, Porter's account explores the nature of Kasztner - the hero, the cool politician, the proud Zionist, the romantic lover, the man who believed that promises, even to die-hard Nazis, had to be kept. The deals he made raise questions about moral choices that continue to haunt the world today.
Kasztner S Train
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Author : Anna Porter
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
Kasztner S Train written by Anna Porter and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with History categories.
The true, heart-wrenching story of Rezsö Kasztner, a Hungarian lawyer and journalist, who rescued thousands of Jews during the last days of the Second World War - and the ultimate price he paid. Summer 1944 - Rezsö Kasztner meets with Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final Solution at its terrible apex and tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews being sent to Auschwitz every month, the two men agree to allow 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. The wealthy Jews of Budapest will pay an average of $1,500 for each family member to be included; the poor will pay nothing. In addition to those on the train, Kasztner negotiates with Eichmann to keep 20,000 Hungarian Jews alive - Eichmann called them 'Kasztner's Jews' or the 'Jews on ice' - for a deposit of approximately $100 per head. These deals would haunt Kasztner to the end of his life. After the war, Kasztner was vilified in an infamous Israeli libel trial for having 'sold his soul to the devil' in collaborating with the Nazis. In 1957, he was murdered while he awaited the Supreme Court verdict that eventually vindicated him. Kasztner's Train explores the nature of Kasztner: the cool hero, the proud Zionist, the man who believed that promises, even to the Nazis, had to be kept. The deals he made raise questions about moral choices that continue to haunt the world today.
Kasztner S Train
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Author : Anna Porter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Kasztner S Train written by Anna Porter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
The true, heart-wrenching tale of Hungary's own Oskar Schindler, a lawyer and journalist named Rezso Kasztner who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during the last chaotic days of World War II -- and the ultimate price he paid. In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final Solution at its terrible apex and tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews being sent to Auschwitz every month, the two men agreed to allow 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other manoeuvrings, Kastzner may have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to the devil." Prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957. Part political thriller, part love story and part legal drama, Porter's account explores the nature of Kasztner -- the hero, the cool politician, the proud Zionist, the romantic lover, the man who believed that promises, even to diehard Nazis, had to be kept. The deals he made raise questions about moral choices that continue to haunt the world today.
Rezso Kasztner
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Author : Ladislaus Löb
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Rezso Kasztner written by Ladislaus Löb and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Two months after his eleventh birthday, on 9 July 1944, the gates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp closed behind Ladislaus Löb. Five months later, with the Second World War still raging, he crossed the border into Switzerland, cold and hungry, but alive and safe. He was not alone, but part of a group of some 1,670 Jewish men, women and children from Hungary, who had been rescued from the Nazis as a result of a deal made by a man called Rezso Kasztner - himself a Hungarian Jew - with Adolf Eichmann, the chief architect of the Holocaust. Twelve years and a miscarriage of justice later Kasztner was murdered by an extremist Jewish gang in his adopted home of Israel. To this day he remains a highly controversial figure, regarded by some as a traitor and by many others as a hero. He was accused of betraying the bulk of the Hungarian Jewry by hand-picking only those who were politically and personally dear to him, or those from whom he could benefit financially, and the judge of his post-war trial concluded that he had 'sold his soul to Satan'. Rezso Kasztner tells his story - and also the story of a child who lived to grow up after the Holocaust thanks to him. A compelling combination of history and memoir, it is also an examination of one individual's unique achievement and a consideration of the profound moral issues raised by his dealings with some of the most evil men ever known.
Dealing With Satan
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Author : Ladislaus Löb
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2008
Dealing With Satan written by Ladislaus Löb and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
Two months after his eleventh birthday, on 9 July 1944, the gates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp closed behind Ladislaus Lob. Five months later, with the Second World War still raging, he crossed the border into Switzerland, cold and hungry, but alive and safe.
Kasztner S Crime
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Author : Paul Bogdanor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Kasztner S Crime written by Paul Bogdanor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book re-examines one of the most intense controversies of the Holocaust: the role of Rezs Kasztner in facilitating the murder of most of Nazi-occupied Hungary's Jews in 1944. Because he was acting head of the Jewish rescue operation in Hungary, some have hailed him as a saviour. Others have charged that he collaborated with the Nazis in the deportations to Auschwitz. What is indisputable is that Adolf Eichmann agreed to spare a special group of 1,684 Jews, who included some of Kasztner's relatives and friends, while nearly 500,000 Hungarian Jews were sent to their deaths. Why were so many lives lost?After World War II, many Holocaust survivors condemned Kasztner for complicity in the deportation of Hungarian Jews. It was alleged that, as a condition of saving a small number of Jewish leaders and select others, he deceived ordinary Jews into boarding the trains to Auschwitz. The ultimate question is whether Kastztner was a Nazi collaborator, as branded by Ben Hecht in his 1961 book Perfidy, or a hero, as Anna Porter argued in her 2009 book Kasztner's Train. Opinion remains divided.Paul Bogdanor makes an original, compelling case that Kasztner helped the Nazis keep order in Hungary's ghettos before the Jews were sent to Auschwitz, and sent Nazi disinformation to his Jewish contacts in the free world. Drawing on unpublished documents, and making extensive use of the transcripts of the Kasztner and Eichmann trials in Israel, Kasztner's Crime is a chilling account of one man's descent into evil during the genocide of his own people.
The Kasztner Report
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Author : Ṿaʻadat ha-ʻezrah ṿeha-hatsalah be-Budapeshṭ
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Kasztner Report written by Ṿaʻadat ha-ʻezrah ṿeha-hatsalah be-Budapeshṭ and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
The Report of the Budapest Jewish Rescue Committee, 1942-1945.
The Man Who Was Murdered Twice
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Author : Yechiam Weitz
language : en
Publisher: Yad Vashem Publications
Release Date : 2011
The Man Who Was Murdered Twice written by Yechiam Weitz and has been published by Yad Vashem Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
The Life, Trial and Death of Israel Kasztner.
Trading In Lives
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Author : Szabolcs Szita
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Trading In Lives written by Szabolcs Szita and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with History categories.
Set in the tumultuous moments of 1944-45 Budapest, this work discusses the operations of the Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee. Drawing out the contradictions and complexities of the mass deportations of Hungarian Jews during the final phase of World War II, Szita suggests that in the Hungarian context, a commerce in lives ensued, where prominent Zionists like Dr. Rezso Kasztner negotiated with the higher echelons of the SS, trying to garner the freedom of Hungarian Jews. Szita's portrait of the controversial Kasztner is a more sympathetic rendition of a powerful Zionist leader who was later assassinated in Israel for his dealings with Nazi leaders. Szita reveals a story of interweaving personalities and conflicts during arguably the most tragic moment in European history. The author's extensive research is a tremendous contribution to a field of study that has been much ignored by scholarship-the Hungarian holocaust and the trade in human lives.
Aki Egy Embert Megment A Vil Got Menti Meg
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Author : Szabolcs Szita
language : hu
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Aki Egy Embert Megment A Vil Got Menti Meg written by Szabolcs Szita and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
Examines Jewish rescue operations in Nazi-occupied Budapest. In these operations, the Hungarian Zionist leadership, united in the Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee, became involved in negotiations with the SS (i.e. Eichmann and his subordinates) to trade Jewish lives in return for Jewish property. The SS's interest was aimed at facilitating the deportation of Jews from Hungary and appropriating as much property as possible. Argues that the Committee, headed by Ottó Komoly and Rezső Kasztner, sincerely tried to rescue Jews, but were forced to choose the lesser of evils. Among the Committee's successes were the dispatch of the "Kasztner train" and the transport of ca. 6,000 Jews to the Strasshof camp near Vienna, where their chances of survival were higher than in Auschwitz. Describes the deal made by Ferenc Chorin with the SS, due to which five of the most affluent Hungarian Jewish families were rescued. Dwells on the personality of Kurt Becher, Kasztner's SS "partner" in the negotiations, a calculating cynic who tried not only to procure an alibi and enrich himself, but also to assume the mantle of a "rescuer of Jews". Contends that the expertise of the SS and the complete submission of the Jews in Hungary played into the hands of the stewards of this well-planned and well-disguised operation.