Kasztner's Train Kasztner's Train

Kasztner's Train

The True Story of Rezso Kasztner, Unknown Hero of the Holocaust

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Publisher Description

In summer 1944, Rezso Kasztner met with Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust, in Budapest. With the Final Solution at its terrible apex and tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews being sent to Auschwitz every month, the two men agreed to allow 1,684 Jews to leave for Switzerland by train. In other manoeuvrings Kasztner may have saved another 40,000 Jews already in the camps. Kasztner was later judged for having "sold his soul to the devil." Prior to being exonerated, he was murdered in Israel in 1957.

Part political thriller, part love story and part legal drama, Anna Porter's account explores the nature of Kasztner--the hero, the cool politician, the proud Zionist, the romantic lover, the man who believed that promises, even to diehard Nazis, had to be kept. The deals he made raise questions about moral choices that continue to haunt the world today.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2009
September 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
520
Pages
PUBLISHER
Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Ltd.
SELLER
Perseus Books, LLC
SIZE
9
MB

Customer Reviews

Derrel_77 ,

Great story; bad writing.

The man and his story are quite remarkable, and it's good to see the vindication this book attempts to give him. The fault of this book is entirely the author's. She can't seem to get a grasp on what kind of book she is trying to write. A good portion of the book is a very dry, fact, fact, fact reiteration of what happened. Then, every so often, an awkward page or paragraph appears which reads like a novelization of events. The rest of the pages are filled with off-topic stories of atrocity which distract from the story of Kasztner. (Don't misunderstand me as saying that the stories of pain and suffering are unnecessary, because I think they definitely do need to be heard, but these stories are not Kasztner's, and interfere with the story the author is trying to tell.)

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