Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
32 (2004) 21-57
Keywords:
Kasztner, Rezső Rudolf,
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
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Jews
Abstract:
Criticizes postwar myths of the rescue of large numbers of Jews in Hungary (mainly in Budapest) by either Hungarian leaders, Germans, Jewish leaders, or foreign diplomats. Although Horthy's decision to stop the deportations from Budapest in July 1944 saved thousands of Jews, his motives were far from humanitarian; he was well aware of the fate of the Jews who were deported before July, with his acquiescence. Neither Kurt Becher, Himmler, nor Eichmann, who initiated negotiations with Zionist leaders in Budapest on a possible ransom of Jews, had mass rescue in mind. Their plans were devised to thwart resistance to deportation on the part of the Zionist leadership and the Jewish masses, and in the case of the "blood for trucks" deal - also to put a wedge between the Western Allies and the USSR. Although the negotiations between Kasztner and the SS failed to rescue masses of Jews, dismisses the idea of Kasztner's wholehearted collaboration with the Nazis. Among the myths of rescue, that of a mass rescue of Jews across the Hungarian-Romanian border under the guidance of Carmilly-Weinberger and Raoul Şorban is entirely based on lies.
Note:
Appeared also in "East European Quarterly" 38,2 (2004). Appeared in German as "Rettungsaktionen: Mythos und Realität" in "Ungarn und der Holocaust" (2005) 15-40 and as "Rettungsaktionen in Nord-Siebenbürgen: Mythos und Realität" in "Holocaust an der Peripherie" (2009) 129-140. Appeared in French as "Les opérations de sauvetage en Hongrie: mythes et réalités" in "Revue d'Histoire de la Shoah" 185 (2006) 397-426. Appeared also in Romanian as "Acţiunile de salvare în Transilvania de Nord: mit şi realitate" in "Holocaustul la periferie" (2010) 199-217.
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In Hebrew:
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"יד ושם" לב (תשסד) 17-45
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