Kasztner's Train: The True Story of an Unknown Hero of the Holocaust - Brossura

Porter, Anna

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ISBN 10: 0802717411 ISBN 13: 9780802717412

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2009

Riassunto

Documents the controversial efforts by Hungarian Rezso Kasztner and a small group of Zionist activists to rescue Jewish deportees during World War II, tracing his efforts to aid Schindler, his freedom-seeking negotiations with Eichmann, and his wrongful conviction and assassination in Israel. Reprint.

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L'autore:

Anna Porter was born in Hungary and personally experienced the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. A celebrated former publisher in Toronto, she is the author of five previous books published only in Canada, including The Storyteller, a memoir of her family through seven centuries of Hungarian history. She lives in Toronto.

Product Description:

"A tale of rescue as remarkable as Wallenberg or Schindler...An important piece of forgotten history."-Kati Marton, author of "The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World "The heroic story of Rezso Kasztner, the "Hungarian Oskar Schindler" who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, only to be accused of collaboration and assassinated in I srael twelve years after World War II ended. Based on interviews with those who were on the train as well as documents and correspondence not previously published, Anna Porter tells the dramatic, full story of one of the heroes of the twentieth century.

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0802717411
• ISBN 13: 9780802717412
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 431