Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
כיוונים חדשים; כתב עת לענייני ציונות, יהדות, מדיניות, חברה ותרבות
Angaben zur Quelle:
19 (תשסט) 109-148
Keywords:
קסטנר, ישראל,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Soon after Kasztner arrived in Hungary in 1940, he became a leader of the small Zionist movement there, as he had been in Romania, and in 1943 he became vice chairman of the rescue committee in Budapest. Following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944 and the deportation of ca. 400,000 Jews soon after, Kasztner began dealing with Nazis in order to rescue some Jews. He dealt with Dieter Wisliceny, who had been bribed in 1942 by the Slovakian Working Group, and with Eichmann, who allowed such negotiations only in order to occupy the Jews with small matters while he planned the extermination of all of Hungarian Jewry. Kasztner managed to save 1,684 Jews, who were sent on a train to Bergen-Belsen and later released. He also saved another ca. 13,500 Jews by having them sent to the Strasshof labor camp in Austria instead of to Auschwitz. Notes that Kasztner sought out Nazi officers who were looking for alibis, such as Wisliceny and Kurt Becher, and promised some of them that he would help them after the war. Kasztner later claimed that, through Becher, he was able to stop extermination processes in several camps, but his activities were seen by many as collaboration with Nazis. Discusses, also, the 1954 Grünwald trial in Israel, which was political and became the Kasztner trial. Although he was backed by the ruling party, Kasztner was castigated for his dealings with Nazi officers and for testifying in favor of four of them after the war. He was murdered in 1958, shortly before a court of appeals declared that his intentions had been noble ones.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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