Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
דפים לחקר השואה
Angaben zur Quelle:
כא (תשסז) 55-73
Keywords:
ולנברג, ראול,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
Abstract:
Examines why the Jews in Budapest were not deported en masse. When the Germans occupied Hungary in 1944, the Jews of the provinces were deported first. The deportations were organized by Adolf Eichmann, under the orders of SS Generals Otto Winkelmann and Hans Geschke. Eichmann and Dieter Wisliceny then led the Hungarian Jewish rescue committee, the Vaad ha-Hatzalah, to believe that they could make a deal to save the Jews of Budapest, but the two SS officers were not actually authorized to make such a deal. In the summer, Horthy called a halt to the deportations, Eichmann left Budapest, and Rudolf Kasztner continued to negotiate with Kurt Becher to try and rescue Jews. With the overthrow of Horthy in October 1944, Eichmann returned to Budapest and began to send Jews to Austria for forced labor. The city was surrounded by the Red Army in November. General Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch then took command in Budapest; he later claimed that he prevented the Arrow Cross from killing the Jews there, although it is not clear why he would do so.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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