Aid and Rescue Committee

Aid and Rescue Committee

The Aid and Rescue Committee, or "Va'adat Ha-Ezrah ve-ha-Hatzalah be-Budapesht" (name in Hebrew: ועדת העזרה וההצלה בבודפשט; called the "Vaada") Braham, Randolph L. "Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust (Hebrew edition)", Yad Vashem and Sifriat Hapoalim, 1990, p.438. ] was a small committee of Zionists based in Budapest in 1944-5, who were dedicated to helping Jews escape the Holocaust during the German occupation of Hungary. Bauer, Yehuda. "Jews for Sale: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945", Yale University Press, 1994, p.152. ]

The main personalities of the "Vaada" were Dr. Otto Komoly, president; Rudolf Kastner, executive vice-president and "de facto" leader; Samuel Springmann, treasurer; and Joel Brand, who was in charge of "tijul", or the underground rescue of Jews. Hilberg, Raul. "The Destruction of the European Jews", Yale University Press, 2003, p. 901] Other members were Hansi Brand (Joel Brand's wife); Moshe Krausz and Eugen Frankl (both Orthodox Jews and Zionists); and Ernst Szilagyi from the left-wing "Hashomer Hatzair". Bauer, Yehuda. "Jews for Sale: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945", Yale University Press, 1994, p.153. ]

ee also

*Kastner train
*History of the Jews in Hungary
*Adolf Eichmann
*Kurt Becher
*Lord Moyne
*Strasshof an der Nordbahn

Notes

References

*Bauer, Yehuda. "Jews for Sale: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945", Yale University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-300-06852-2
*Hilberg, Raul. "The Destruction of the European Jews", first published in 1961, this edition Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09557-0


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