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

by Porter, Anna

• ISBN13: 9780802717412
• ISBN10: 0802717411
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-03
• Publisher: Walker Books

Summary

The heroic story of the "Hungarian Oskar Schindler," who saved thousands of Jews from certain death only to be accused of collaboration and assassinated in Israel twelve years after World War II ended.

Author Biography

Anna Porter was born in Hungary and personally experienced the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. A celebrated former publisher in Canada, she is the author of five previous books, including The Storyteller. She lives in Toronto.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Jewish Question
Desperately Seeking Palestine	p. 9
The Gathering Storm	p. 30
A Question of Honor, Law, and Justice	p. 46
The Politics of Genocide	p. 62
Budapest: The Beginning of the End	p. 74
The Kingdom of the Night
The Occupation	p. 83
Obersturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann	p. 93
In the Anteroom of Hell	p. 106
Bargaining with the Devil	p. 119
The Auschwitz Protocols	p. 126
The Reichsfuhrer's Most Obedient Servant	p. 130
Mission to Istanbul	p. 142
A Million Jews for Sale	p. 152
A Game of Roulette for Human Lives	p. 166
Rolling the Dice	p. 174
Blessings from Heaven	p. 185
Strasshof: The Jews on Ice	p. 190
The Memories of Peter Munk and Erwin Schaeffer	p. 194
The Highway of Death
The Journey	p. 203
The End of the Great Plan	p. 210
Still Trading in Lives	p. 217
The Bridge at Saint Margarethen	p. 232
The End of Summer	p. 239
The Dying Days of Budapest	p. 248
In the Shadow of the Third Reich's Final Days	p. 261
Budapest in the Throes of Liberation	p. 279
Nazi Gold	p. 288
Death with Honor
In Search of a Life	p. 299
The Jews of the Exile	p. 312
The Prince of Darkness Is a Gentleman	p. 319
Letters to Friends in the Mizrachi	p. 324
The Price of a Man's Soul	p. 339
The Consequences	p. 351
The Aftermath	p. 356
The Banality of Evil	p. 363
Other Lives	p. 368
Acknowledgments	p. 379
Notes	p. 383
Bibliography	p. 407
Index	p. 417
Photographs	p. 184
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