Language:
Polish
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Zagłada Żydów; studia i materiały
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (2006) 99-131
Keywords:
Kasztner, Rezső Rudolf,
;
Grinṿald, Malkiʼel
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Traces Israeli legislation concerning punishment of Jews who collaborated with the Nazis in Europe during the Holocaust, reflecting on problems related to this legislation and several trials in the 1950s. Most of the trials were against Jewish Kapos who immigrated to Israel after the war and were recognized in the streets by Holocaust survivors who knew them in the camps. However, the trial which was associated with the issue of Jewish leadership and collaboration with the Nazis was not conducted under this law. In 1954, the State of Israel sued Malkiel Gruenwald for libel after he accused Rudolf Kasztner of abandoning the majority of Hungarian Jews in exchange for saving only prominent people, rabbis, and members of his own family. Kasztner, in a deal with with Nazis, managed to save 1,684 Jews, who were sent from Budapest to Bergen-Belsen and eventually on to Switzerland. Ultimately, this trial became known as the "Kasztner trial". Kasztner was found guilty, and was murdered while waiting for his appeal. He was posthumously acquitted. Discusses the implications of these trials for Israeli society.
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