This article is about the Hungarian organization. For the American organization, see
Vaad Hatzalah.
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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)
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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 based in Budapest in 1944-45, who helped Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust during the German occupation of Hungary.[1] The Committee was also known as the Rescue and Relief Committee, and the Budapest Rescue Committee.
The main personalities of the Vaada were Dr. Ottó Komoly, president; Rudolf Kastner, executive vice-president and de facto leader; 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); Moshe Krausz and Eugen Frankl (both Orthodox Jews); and Ernst Szilagyi from the left-wing Hashomer Hatzair.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Bauer, Yehuda. Jews for Sale: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945, Yale University Press, 1994, p. 152.
- ↑ Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews, Yale University Press, 2003, p. 901
- ↑ Bauer 1994, p. 153.