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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]
' 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.
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The Yiddish speakers were counted as ethnically German. According to this classification, 6.94% of the ethnic Hungarians and 11.63% of the Germans of Hungary were Jewish. In total, Hungarian speakers made up a 54.45% majority in Hungary; German speakers (including those who spoke Yiddish), made up 10.42% of the population. [citation needed]
Schwartz returned to Hungary after World War II. The People's Tribunal, alongside Sándor Szűcs, head of the Judenrat in Füzesgyarmat, accused him of war crimes and collaboration with Nazi Germany in 1946. They were the only rural Jewish council leaders accused of Nazi collaboration after the war.
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Affiliated to the World Jewish Congress, the EJC works with national governments, European Union institutions and the Council of Europe.The European Jewish Congress is one of the most influential international public associations and a large secular organisation representing more than 2.5 million of Jews in Europe.
Joel Brand (Hungarian: Brand Jenő; [3] 25 April 1906 – 13 July 1964) was a member of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee (Va'adat ha-Ezra ve-ha-Hatzala be-Budapest or Va'ada), [4] an underground Zionist group in Budapest, Hungary, that smuggled Jews out of German-occupied Europe to the relative safety of Hungary, during the Holocaust.