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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.
Learn more about Rudolf (Rezső) Kasztner (1906-1957) during World War II and his controversial efforts to help refugees escape Hungary in 1944.
Rezső Rudolf Kasztner was a journalist, lawyer, and a leader of the Zionist movement in Romania and Hungary. Born in Cluj, Transylvania (then part of Romania), Kasztner studied law. From 1925 to 1940, he worked on the Hungarian-language Zionist daily Uj Kelet in Cluj, and served as its political correspondent in Bucharest from 1929 to 1931.
Kasztner Rezső (1941-től Kasztner Rudolf, majd az 1950-es évektől Israel Kastner) (ישראל קסטנר). (Kolozsvár, 1906 – Tel-Aviv, 1957. március 15.) újságíró és ügyvéd.
Mar 29, 2017 · Kasztner knew that the trains from the Hungarian ghettos were taking their victims not to a resettlement site — as the Jews had been told — but to the gas chambers in...
Rudolf Kastner (1906–1957), also known as Israel Rezső Kasztner, was born in Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary. [11] Kastner attended law school, then worked as a journalist for Új Kelet as a sports reporter and political commentator. [12]
Oct 20, 2009 · Author. (Also known as Rudolf Kasztner; his Hebrew name was Yisra’el; 1906–1957), Zionist activist in Hungary during the Holocaust; later accused of collaborating with the Nazis. Born in Cluj (Kolozsvár), Kasztner worked for the leading Zionist newspaper of Transylvania, the Új Kelet (New East), between 1925 and 1940.