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Rudolf Kastner

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Jewish-Hungarian lawyer and journalist (1906-1957)

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Rezső Kasztner, also known as Rudolf Israel Kastner, was a Hungarian-Israeli journalist and lawyer who became known for having helped a group of Jews escape from occupied Europe during the Holocaust on the Kastner train.

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Kasztner Report (1942-1945), original document from the Federal Parliament in Bern, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.Kasztner Report (1942-1945), original document from the Federal Parliament in Bern, in the collection of the Jewish Museum of Switzerland.

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Rezső Kasztner, also known as Rudolf Israel Kastner, was a Hungarian-Israeli journalist and lawyer who became known for having helped a group of Jews escape from occupied Europe during the Holocaust on the Kastner train. After World War II, he was accused of having failed to inform the majority of Hungarian Jews about the reality of what awaited them in Auschwitz. He was assassinated in 1957 after an Israeli court accused him of having "sold his soul to the devil," a charge that was overturned by the Supreme Court of Israel in 1958.

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Journalists
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Journalist
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deceased
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Lived 1906 to 1957 · aged 51
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