The Kastner train is the name usually given to a rescue operation which saved the lives of over 1,600 Jews from Hungary during World War II. It consisted...
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Rezső Kasztner (redirect from Rudolph Kastner)
group of Jews escape from occupied Europe during the Holocaust on the Kastner train. After World War II, he was accused of having failed to informed the...
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The Holocaust in Hungary (section Rudolf Kastner)
known as the "Kastner train". After the war, Kastner testified in favour of Becher and other Nazis at the Nuremberg tribunal. Kastner later emigrated...
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the Holocaust Kastner train, after Rudolf Kastner Sabine Kastner (* 1964), German-born American cognitive neuroscientist Costner Kästner Kestner This page...
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unwilling to travel to Israel. He reportedly died a wealthy man. Joel Brand Kastner train Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl Rudolf Vrba Alfred Wetzler History of the...
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the Government of Israel v. Malchiel Gruenwald, commonly known as the Kastner trial, was a libel case in Jerusalem, Israel. Hearings were held from 1...
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but Kastner collected donations to pay the SS to allow over 1,600 Jews to leave Budapest for Switzerland on what became known as the Kastner train. In...
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Joel Teitelbaum (category Kastner train)
figures, and paid for their inclusion in the passengers' list of the Kastner train, which was to depart the state for a neutral country. Teitelbaum put...
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Development of Holocaust Consciousness in Israel: The Nuremberg, Kapos, Kastner, and Eichmann Trials". Israel Studies. 8 (3). Translated by Moshe, Tlamim:...
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nothing, but Kastner did obtain safe passage to Switzerland for 1,684 Jews on what became known as the Kastner train. Vrba believed that Kastner suppressed...
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Malchiel Gruenwald (section Kastner trial)
attention in 1953, when he accused an Israeli government employee, Rudolf Kastner, of having collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust. Gruenwald...
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Miklós Horthy (category Kastner train)
remain silent in order to save the Jews who escaped on the Kastner train. The "Kastner train", a convoy that enabled Hungarian Jews to escape to Switzerland...
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Peter Munk (category Kastner train)
he escaped on the Kastner train, which carried 1,684 Jews to safety in Switzerland. The journey had been arranged by Rudolf Kastner of the Zionist Aid...
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liquidated in mass executions nearby, especially if they were not near a train station. Larger ghettos were more commonly liquidated during multiple deportations...
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Joel Brand (category Kastner train)
niece were on the train, as were 10 members of Kasztner's family and 388 people from the Kolozsvár ghetto in his home town. Kastner's relationship with...
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surrounding the 1954–1955 Kastner trial in Jerusalem. The book is based on transcripts from the trial and concludes that in 1944 Rudolf Kastner deliberately withheld...
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Killing Kasztner (redirect from Killing Kastner)
with the Nazis is a feature-length theatrical documentary about Rudolf Kastner, and directed by Gaylen Ross. Ross first learned of Kasztner while working...
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his family were rounded up and put on a train headed for Auschwitz. Weissmandl escaped from the sealed train by opening a hole with a saw he had secreted...
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maidservant, but in her thirties she trained as a hairstylist in order to supplement her husband's income. Kästner had a particularly close relationship...
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result of a deal between Rudolph Kastner, and a deputy of Adolf Eichmann. He journeyed on the Kastner train, a special train bound for neutral Switzerland...
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William Stern (businessman) (category Kastner train)
Germany in March 1944, Stern along with his family, escaped on the Kastner train, which carried 1,684 Jews to safety in Switzerland. During the 1960s...
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Tibori Szabó (2011), p. 94 David Kranzler (2000). The Man Who Stopped the Trains to Auschwitz: George Mantello, El Salvador, and Switzerland's Finest Hour...
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B') including Eichmann. Adolf Eichmann History of the Jews in Hungary Kastner train Kurt Becher Bauer, Yehuda (1994). Jews for Sale: Nazi–Jewish Negotiations...
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Hansi Brand (category Kastner train)
Holocaust. Brand and Rudolf Kastner were able to get 1,685 Jews to leave Hungary and go to neutral Switzerland on the Kastner train. In addition, working with...
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Częstochowa Rescue Aid and Rescue Committee Attack on the twentieth convoy Kastner train Le Chambon-sur-Lignon Danish underground Working Group Żegota...
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trains with 20,787 people went to Strasshof between June 25 and 28 (2 each from Debrecen, Szeged, and Baja; 1 from Szolnok). The unique Kastner train...
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József Fischer (category Kastner train)
Kasztner (or Rudolf Kastner), he took part in the organization of the Kastner train mission. He was among the 300 Jews for whom Kastner obtained a reprieve...
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Częstochowa Rescue Aid and Rescue Committee Attack on the twentieth convoy Kastner train Le Chambon-sur-Lignon Danish underground Working Group Żegota...
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684 passengers who were transported out of Hungary by the so-called Kastner train. Teitelbaum, a major rabbinic leader in pre-Holocaust Hungary, stepped...
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Sándor Leitner (category Kastner train)
(b. 1921) and Marianne (b. 1924) were allowed to board the so-called Kastner train and, through Bergen-Belsen, leave for Switzerland in late June 1944...
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