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Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust
Contributor(s): Porter, Anna (Author)

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 ISBN: 0802717411     ISBN-13: 9780802717412
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2009
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Annotation: "A tale of rescue as remarkable as Wallenberg or Schindler...An important piece of forgotten history."-Kati Marton, author of "The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World

"The heroic story of Rezso Kasztner, the "Hungarian Oskar Schindler" who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, only to be accused of collaboration and assassinated in I srael twelve years after World War II ended. Based on interviews with those who were on the train as well as documents and correspondence not previously published, Anna Porter tells the dramatic, full story of one of the heroes of the twentieth century.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Holocaust
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Europe - Austria & Hungary
Dewey: 940.531
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" L (1.10 lbs) 462 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Holocaust
- Chronological Period - 1940's
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
In March, 1944, the German army marched into Hungary, followed soon after by Adolf Eichmann and his SS Sondercommando. His single goal was to eliminate the entire Jewish population of the country. Rezso Kasztner-a lawyer and Zionist activist-stood in his way. In meeting after meeting with Eichman and other Nazis, he sought common ground, exploiting their twin weaknesses of greed and fear, in the process saving thousands of lives. Kasztner's Train-a reference to the famous train ride to freedom he organized-tells this dramatic story for the first time, including a shocking postscript. After the war, Kasztner emigrated to Israel, where in 1956 he was stunningly convicted of collaborating with the Nazis more than a decade before. As he awaited the appeal that would ultimately exonerate him, he was murdered by right-wing activists in Tel Aviv on March 4, 1957.
Hungarian by birth, Anna Porter lived through the Hungarian Revolution as a child, and brings to this book a determination and passion to tell the full story of one of the heroes of the 20th century. Kasztner's Train is based on interviews with survivors who were on the train, and with family members of other survivors, as well as with descendants of those murdered in concentration camps.

Contributor Bio(s): Porter, Anna: - Anna Porter was born in Hungary and personally experienced the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. A celebrated former publisher in Canada, she is the author of five previous books, including The Storyteller, a memoir of her family through seven centuries of Hungarian history. She lives in Toronto.
 
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