Language:
German
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Kairos; Zeitschrift für Judaistik und Religionswissenschaft
Angaben zur Quelle:
36-37 (1994-1995) 87-104
Keywords:
Storfer, Berthold,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
Abstract:
In 1939, Storfer, a converted Jew and successful Viennese businessman, offered his services to Eichmann to organize transports of Jews from all over the Reich (Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia) to sail down the Danube to the Black Sea and from there to Palestine. Until then illegal transports had been organized by the Hehalutz organization, and Eichmann hoped that Storfer would expedite the exodus of the Jews and that the SD would have control. Storfer tried to enlist support for his project all over Europe and at the Evian Conference. Besides the Palestine transports he was also involved in the Nisko transport. The Zionist organizations considered him a collaborator, informer, and competitor. They wanted to select the members of the transports; Eichmann insisted on including the elderly and disabled. Still, Storfer saved some 9,100 Jews. It is unclear what his motives were. He died in Auschwitz in 1944.
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