Kasztner affair: a reappraisal
TitelThe Kasztner affair: a reappraisal
Forfatter
Call number940.531809439/0039
Objektnummer08134g
UdgiverRosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies Graduate Center/City University of New York, Social Science Monographs, Columbia University Press
Udgivelsesår
2011
Pagineringpp211-253
MaterialeArticle
SerieEast European monographs ; no. 785.
ISBN9780880336888
NoterArticle from the book 'The Auschwitz reports and the Holocaust in Hungary' pp211-253
Beskrivelse
An account of the wartime activities of Rudolf Kasztner, the head of the Budapest-based Relief and Rescue Committee. It focuses on his dealings with various members of the SS, and of the 'bargain' that resulted in the eventual rescue of 1684 Jews. This deal became the subject of a major controversy after the war. It culminated in a libel suit that led to the downfall of the Israeli govenment and to his murder