Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1991
Titel der Quelle:
ילקוט מורשת
Angaben zur Quelle:
נ (תשנא) 159-173
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
In March 1939, Hungary occupied Ruthenia. There were ca. 100-120,000 Jews in the area at the time. The government established a special authority (in abbreviation, Keokh) for surveillance over "foreigners", mainly Polish and Russian Jews who did not have Hungarian citizenship. The Keokh had its own police force. The founder and head of Keokh up to 1 July 1941 was Ámon Pásztóy. He initiated an operation to get rid of thousands of Jews, claiming that they could not "prove" Hungarian citizenship, although many had lived in the area for generations. The rules for proving citizenship were arbitrary. At the end of June 1941, Hungary having joined Germany in the war against the Soviet Union, the Keokh police arrested ca. 18,000 Jews and handed them over to the German army at Kamenets-Podolskii. When the arrests began, Jewish and Gentile bodies protested strongly to the Minister of the Interior who, on 12 July, ordered the arrests to be stopped, but those who had already been taken away could not be saved. Ca. 18,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered at Kamenets-Podolskii, along with the local Jews, by the Einsatzgruppe C, on 27-28 August 1941. Some Jews managed to escape and relate what had happened.
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אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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