"It is Anna Porter's consummate art as a storyteller that makes this true tale of how a group of Hungarian Jews escaped the Holocaust so compelling. This is a must read that must become a must-see movie." -- Peter C. Newman, author and Holocaust escapee
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 Kasztner 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.
Part political thriller, part love story and part legal drama, Kasztner's Train explores the nature of Kasztner -- the hero, the cool politician, the proud Zionist, the romantic lover, the man who believed that promises, even to diehard Nazis, had to be kept. The deals he made raise questions about moral choices that continue to haunt the world today.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-[474]) and index
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- 940.53/1835092
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- 22
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- P67 2007eb
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- 1 electronic text (xi, 491 p.)
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Table of Contents
- Preface 13
- Introduction 15
- ThE JEwish QuEsTiON 19
- Desperately 21
- Seeking Palestine 21
- The Gathering 44
- Storm 44
- A Question of Honor 63
- Law and Justice 63
- The Politics 82
- Budapest 96
- The Beginning 96
- ThE KiNgdOm Of ThE NighT 103
- The Occupation 105
- Obersturmbannführer 117
- Adolf Eichmann 117
- In the Anteroom 132
- Bargaining 147
- The Auschwitz 155
- Protocols 155
- The Reichsführers 159
- Most Obedient Servant 159
- Mission 173
- A Million 185
- Jews for Sale 185
- A Game of Roulette 202
- Rolling the Dice 211
- Blessings 224
- Strasshof 230
- The Jews on Ice 230
- The Last Train 234
- The Memories 239
- ThE highwAy Of dEATh 243
- The Journey 245
- The End of 269
- Still Trading 278
- The Bridge 295
- The End 304
- The Dying 314
- Days of Budapest 314
- In the Shadow of the 330
- Third Reichs Final Days 330
- Budapest in the 352
- Throes of Liberation 352
- Nazi Gold 363
- In Search 375
- The Jews 389
- The Prince of 397
- Darkness Is a Gentleman 397
- Letters to Friends 403
- The Price 422
- The 435
- Consequences 435
- The Aftermath 441
- The Banality 448
- Other Lives 453
- Acknowledgments 467
- Notes 473
- Bibliography 493
- Index 503
