Small committee of Zionists based in Budapest in 1944–45
This article is about the Hungarian organization. For the American organization, see Vaad Hatzalah.
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Blood for goods
Key figures
Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee
Hansi Brand
Joel Brand
Rezső Kasztner
Ottó Komoly
SS
Kurt Becher
Adolf Eichmann
Heinrich Himmler
Issues
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz Protocols
Vrba–Wetzler report
History of the Jews in Hungary
The Holocaust
Kastner train
Kastner trial
Writers
Malchiel Gruenwald (Michtavim el haveray be'Mizrahi, weekly pamphlet, 1952)
Ben Hecht (Perfidy, 1961)
Raul Hilberg (The Destruction of the European Jews, 1961)
Rudolf Vrba (I Cannot Forgive, 1963)
Randolph L. Braham (The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary, 1981)
Motti Lerner (Kastner, 1985; The Kastner Trial, 1994)
Jim Allen (Perdition, 1987)
Yehuda Bauer (Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933–1945, 1994)
Tuvia Friling (Arrows in the Dark, 1998)
Ladislaus Löb (Rezső Kasztner, 2008)
Anna Porter (Kasztner's Train, 2008)
Gaylen Ross (Killing Kasztner, 2008)
Jeremy Davidson (Tickling Leo, 2009)
Paul Bogdanor (Kasztner’s Crime, 2016)
Kastner train passengers
Kastner train
Avraham Deutsch
Dezső Ernster
Esther Jungreis
Ladislaus Löb
Egon Mayer
Peter Munk
Reuven Schmeltzer
Yonasan Steif
Léopold Szondi
Joel Teitelbaum
Béla Zsolt
Related
Bratislava Working Group
Gisi Fleischmann
Michael Dov Weissmandl
Europa Plan [he]
History of the Jews in Slovakia
Jewish Agency
Joint Distribution Committee
Saly Mayer [de; he]
Dieter Wisliceny
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The Aid and Rescue Committee, or Va'adat Ha-Ezrah ve-ha-Hatzalah be-Budapesht (Vaada for short; name in Hebrew: ועדת העזרה וההצלה בבודפשט) was a small committee of Zionists in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944–1945, who helped Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust during the German occupation of that country.[1] The Committee was also known as the Rescue and Relief Committee, and the Budapest Rescue Committee.
The main personalities of the Vaada were Ottó Komoly, president; Rudolf Kasztner, executive vice-president; Samuel Springmann, treasurer; and Joel Brand, who was in charge of tijul or the underground rescue of Jews.[2] Other members were Hansi Brand (Joel Brand's wife); Ernő Szilágyi from the left-wing Hashomer Hatzair;[3] Peretz Revesz; Andras Biss; and Niszon Kahan. After the German occupation in March 1944 responsibilities were split: Otto Komoly became mainly in charge of dealing with Hungarian government, military and police figures (the so-called 'line A'), while Kasztner (after Brand's departure to Istanbul) led the negotiations with the Germans (the so-called 'line B') including Eichmann.
^Bauer, Yehuda (1994). Jews for Sale: Nazi–Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945. New Haven: Yale University Press, p. 152. ISBN 978-0300059137
^Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews, Yale University Press, 2003, p. 901.
^Bauer 1994, p. 153.
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