Kasztner's Train: The True Story of Rezso Kaztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust by Anna Porter
2007 | ISBN: 1553652223, 0802717411, 0802715966 | English | 400 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
2007 | ISBN: 1553652223, 0802717411, 0802715966 | English | 400 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The true, heart-wrenching tale of Hungary's own Oskar Schindler, a lawyer and journalist named Rezso Kasztner who rescued thousands of Hungarian Jews during the last chaotic days of World War II-and the ultimate price he paid.
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 maneuverings 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.