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About Dr. Nison Kahan
מגלות היוחסין של משפחות יהודיות הונגריות- כרך ראשון עורך- מונקאטשי pg. 24
Lawyer The president of The Zionist organisation and their advisor.
The following excerpt is from Brothers For Resisteance and Rescue, The Underground Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary during WWII by David Gur
Nissan was a lawyer. He devoted most of his time to Zionist activities. He was one of the founders of the student unions “Ivriya” and “Maccabea” and later of various aid organizations for refugees who arrived in Hungary. In 1941 he engaged in helping deportees from Kamenec Podolsk who did not have Hungarian citizenship. After the Germans invaded Hungary in March 1944, Nissan was a member of the Jewish Council in Budapest. He was in favour of rescue operations in the country towns with the help of the Zionist youth movements. Nissan was a delegate for his movement in Zionist congresses. He left Hungary on the train of the Relief and Rescue Committee and arrived in Eretz Israel (Palestine) in 1945. He worked in the legal department of the Keren Kayemet LeIsrael.
See also: Additional material is available in the memoirs of Nison Kahan, in Judit Molnár, “A Zsidó Tanács megalakulása – cionista szemmel. Dr. Kahan Nison visszaemlékezése,” in Holocaust Füzetek, vol.13 (1999) pp. 93-117 and http://holocaust-center.haifa.ac.il/images/stories/scanned_docs/gui...
The lawyer Nison Kahan, who established the Maccabi Zionist student organization in 1903, later became president of the Hungarian Zionist Association (They later settled in Israel). 94 Munk család genealógiája, 24-27., 224; Magyar Zsidó Lexikon, 535, 549.
The first Zionist youth organization in Bistrita, in Hungary, Ivriyah, was founded in 1901 by Nissan Kahan, who corresponded with Theodor *Herzl. Source: Jewish Virtual Library
Nison also served as the Gabbai of the Great Orthodox Kozinci Synagogue in Budapest. Source: Yehuda Kahan, the great grandson of Yom Tov Kahan.
Nison is listed a passenger on the Rudolph Kasztner Transports together with his wife Gisella and his daughter Eva. See: JewishGen Hungary Database: Jews for Sale: The Rudolph Kasztner Transports List I
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About Dr. Nison Kahan (עברית)
מגלות היוחסין של משפחות יהודיות הונגריות- כרך ראשון עורך- מונקאטשי
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Dr. Nison Kahan's Timeline
| 1883 |
October 25, 1883
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Lviv, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine
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| 1915 |
March 15, 1915
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Budapest, Hungary
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| 1921 |
February 28, 1921
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Budapest, Hungary
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| 1949 |
April 17, 1949
Age 65
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Haifa, Israel
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