TITLE:
Kasztner's train : the true story of Rezső Kasztner, unknown hero of the Holocaust / Anna Porter.
By:
Publication Date:
2007
Publication Information:
Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre,
Physical Description:
491 p. : ill.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final Solution at its terrible apex and tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews being sent to Auschwitz every month, the two men agreed to allow 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other manoeuvrings, Kastzner may have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to the devil." Prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781553652229
978155365403X
