Special
Lecture
15 November 2006
Yoram
Leker and Prof Ladislaus Löb:
Kasztner: Saving Jewish Lives and the dilemma of dealing with the
Nazi
Reszö Kasztner (1906-1957) was a Labour Zionist activist born
in Cluj, Transsylvania. He believed that the best way to save Hungarian
Jewry was to negotiate with German authorities and, in late June 1944,
convinced Eichmann to release nearly 1700 Jews, many of whom were
wealthy and prominent individuals and their families. After the war,
Kasztner moved to Palestine and in 1954 brought a criminal libel case
against Malkiel Grunwald who accused him of collaborating with the
Nazis.
Yoram Leker: He is a lawyer in Paris, specialising in intellectual
property litigation. His family on his mother´s side were among
those who took part in negotations with the Nazis and his mother found
safety on the first Kasztner train. Leker´s talk will concern
Kasztner´s trial, and especially its political orientation.
He will also add more personal issues of how it feels to be a second
generation survivor of the "Kasztner train"
Ladislaus Löb was born in 1933 in Cluj, Transsylvania. In 1944
he spent five month in Bergen-Belsen as a member of the "Kasztner
group", before being ransomed by Kasztner and taken to Switzerland.
Currently he is writing a book on Kasztner´s negotations with
the SS and Kasztner´s trial. |
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