Genealogy Projects tagged with Kasztner Train on the Geni Family Tree

The Kasztner Transports

Rudolf (Israel) Kasztner , a Zionist leader in Hungary during World War II, headed the Relief and Rescue Committee, a small Jewish group that negotiated with Nazi officials to rescue Hungarian Jews in exchange for money, goods and military equipment.> In June 1944, the "Kasztner Train," with 1,684 Jews on board, departed Budapest for the safety of neutral Switzerland. > Kasztner's negotiations ...