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Stopping the Trains to Auschwitz
Stopping the Trains to Auschwitz. Budapest 1944.
2020 •
Frank Baron
Despite Hitler’s and Eichmann’s secret machinery for the deportation of Jews from the Hungarian provinces, dramatic events finally interrupted the progress of their unprecedented crimes. How this unfolded is the focus of this book. Although many thousands had already perished, a rescue effort saved the Jewish population of Budapest. The initiative resulted from the courageous actions of networks within Hungary and Switzerland. The Auschwitz Report, the detailed revelations of two Slovak escapees, revealed to them the truth about the deportations. They took dangerous risks by aggressively challenging the power of the Nazi extermination program.
Stopping the Trains to Auschwitz: Budapest, 1944
Stopping the Trains to Auschwitz (second, revised edition)
2020 •
Frank Baron
When the German army invaded Hungary on March 19, Adolf Eichmann and the Gestapo had a free hand to solve what Hitler considered to be the “Jewish problem.” With the aid of the Hungarian gendarmes (the provincial police force) the operation proceeded swiftly, so that by early July about 470,000 Jews had been deported to the German Reich, primarily to Auschwitz. But a number of factors played a role in causing Eichmann and the Gestapo to fail in deporting a remaining Jewish population of Budapest, close to 200,000 persons. The following study shows how and why they failed.
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Auschwitz Report
Frank Baron
The escape of Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler from Auschwitz on April 7, 1944, was extraordinary in its daring, courageous execution, and impact. The challenging task of the two escapees was to inform the world of previously unimaginable crimes, and to do so in a way that made the unbelievable believable. Because the deportations to Auschwitz were still in progress, it was essential to inform the threatened Jewish populations that they were slated by the Germans to be part of the “final solution.” When and how the transmission of the resulting Auschwitz Report took place, made all the difference, and that is this paper’s focus. Decisive transmissions involved secret networks in Switzerland and Hungary, taking place independently. Despite the presence of the Gestapo and the German army, finally, in early July, 1944, two independent, increasingly powerful efforts engendered by the report converged in Budapest. Only then could one of the most remarkable rescues of World War II take plac...
Anglo-Jewish rescue and relief efforts, 1938-1944
1999 •
pamela shatzkes
Recent scholarship has focused on the response of Jews in the free world to the plight of European Jewry in Nazi-occupied Europe. The work of Anglo- Jewish refugee organisations in facilitating the arrival of over 50,000 refugees in Britain between 1933-1939 has been variously chronicled as a model of charitable endeavour and a half-hearted effort cramped by insecurity and self- interest. More consistently, scholars argue that Anglo-Jewry failed to respond to the catastrophe of the war years with the resolution and vigour that might have saved more lives. This thesis takes issue with the current consensus on both the pre-war and war periods. Anglo-Jewry was a confident, well-integrated community which tackled the escalating problems of refugee immigration in the 1930s with common sense and administrative expertise born of a long tradition of communal charity. Its achievement is all the more remarkable measured against the scale of the disaster, the constraints of government immigrat...
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The ‘Myth’ and Reality of Rescue from the Holocaust: The Karski-Koestler and Vrba-Wetzler Reports
2000 •
Frank Baron
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Genocide and the politics of remembering: the nameless, the celebrated, and the would-be Holocaust heroes
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ruth linn
State of Florida resource manual on Holocaust education, grades 7-8 : a study in character education
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Bernadette Bennett
Hans-Christian Jasch, Stephan Lehnstaedt (Eds.), Crimes Uncovered. The First Generation of Holocaust Researchers
2019 •
Hans-Christian Jasch
Between 1939 and 1945, the Germans and their helpers murdered six million Jews throughout Europe. The Holocaust was aimed at the extermination of people, as well as at the destruction of their culture and the veiling of all traces of these crimes. Jewish researchers attempted to counteract this complete “eradication” even as the murders were being committed. They documented this event by gathering sources to visualize and remember the scale of the crimes and the extermination of Jewish life. In exile, as well as in life threatening conditions in the ghettos and camps, they carried out research, collected facts and preserved evidence of the crimes. They founded archives and committees that continued their work after the end of the war. They wanted to document who was murdered and to identify the killers. They wanted to remember the dead, to fathom the crimes, to bring the perpetrators to justice and, at the same time, they wanted to make future genocides impossible. Driven by varying motives, these women and men from a variety of professional backgrounds dedicated themselves to the research and the commemoration of the Holocaust. They thereby denied the criminals their final triumph: the murder of millions did not fall into oblivion and did not go without consequence. Books, memorial sites, research institutes, trials and, last but not least, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Genocide Convention of 1948 were results of their passionate dedication. Our contemporary knowledge of the Holocaust and the basis of our remembrance of the Holocaust are based on this legacy.
Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945
2011 •
Robert Hanyok
