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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]
Schmidt served in Hitler's Wehrmacht, while managing to hide his Jewish roots from the Nazi regime. [107] Árpád Göncz, a former president of Hungary from 1990 to 2000, had a Jewish maternal grandfather. [108] Although most head of states with Jewish ancestry come from Europe and Latin America, some are from other regions of the World.
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' 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.
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]
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Samu Stern [1] [2] (Hungarian: Stern Samu; 5 January 1874 – 8 June 1946) was a businessman, banker, advisor to the royal court, and head of Hungary's Neolog Jewish Community from 1929 to 1945.
Following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944, the local Hungarian authorities instructed Schwartz and Sándor Strasser to establish a Jewish council.According to his later testimony, Schwartz was threatened with internment if he did not carry out the order.