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Since the German occupation of Hungary, the Jewish Council of Budapest operated eight hospitals (the most prominent was in Szabolcs utca), but with a decreasing number of beds only the most urgent cases could be treated. The lack of equipment and doctors was a general problem and the lack of freedom of movement for doctors was also hectic. [50]
Following the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944, the chief settlement clerk instructed Vető to compile a list of local Jews and establish a two-member Jewish council according to the newly adopted regulations. His role was only formal, within weeks the Jews were locked up in a ghetto and then deported by the local gendarmerie units.
' Jewish council ') was an administrative body established in German-occupied Europe during World War II which purported to represent a Jewish community in dealings with the Nazi authorities. The Germans required Jews to form Judenräte across the occupied territories at local and sometimes national levels.
Jewish leader Samu Stern promised that he would do everything he could to free the girl from the German and Hungarian authorities. [2] In order to satisfy Nazi demands, Prónai collected the previous year's tax arrears in April 1944, referring to the Jewish council. [2] The Jews of Békéscsaba were interned and collected to the local tobacco ...
The Nazi Germany invaded Hungary on 19 March 1944. They immediately established the Central Jewish Council seated in Budapest. Szegő was among those rural Jewish leaders, who attended the first official meeting of the council on 28 March, after granting domestic travel permit from the German administration. [2]
Rezső Kasztner (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkastnɛr ˈrɛʒøː]; 1906 – 15 March 1957), also known as Rudolf Israel Kastner (Hebrew: ישראל רודולף קסטנר), was a Hungarian-Israeli journalist and lawyer who became known for having helped a group of Jews escape from occupied Europe during the Holocaust on the Kastner train.
Sándor Leitner was born as Joszéf Leitner into an Orthodox Jewish family in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary (present-day Oradea, Romania) on 5 November 1889, as the son of wealthy textile manufacturer Márton (Mordekháj) Leitner and Chaja Leitner. The family company was considered one of the largest wholesalers in Romania in the early 1930s.