I did not realize just how close the Jews of Hungary came to escaping the horrors of the Holocaust.
From reading history, I knew the government of Hungary collaborated with the Nazi's. At least two divisions of the Waffen SS were Hungarian nationals.
The perfidy of Eichmann was at it's disgusting heights as Eichmann tried to ransom Hungarian Jews..when that nefarious plot failed, Eichmann shifted precious transportation resources from the army's facing the Soviets, to shipping Hungary's remaining Jews to Auschwitz (until the Soviet army was at the gates of the many Polish death factories.)
Our local guide is a survivor, whose compelling story hopefully will be told at our congregation.
We are off to Krakow tomorrow including visits to the Schindler factory and museum. I just reread the book, and while Schindler was not a moral paragon ,he did save the lives of approximately 1100 Jews who he diverted from Auschwitz.
-Stu Katz
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