Rezso Kasztner: The Daring Rescue of Hungarian Jews: A Survivor's Account

by Ladislaus Löb and lob-ladislaus

Book Overview

Two months after his eleventh birthday, on 9 July 1944, the gates of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp closed behind Ladislaus L b. Five months later, with the Second World War still raging, he crossed the border into Switzerland, cold and hungry, but alive and safe. He was not alone, but part of a group of some 1,670 Jewish men, women and children from Hungary, who had been rescued from the Nazis as a result of a deal made by a man called Rezso...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845950089
• ISBN13: 9781845950088
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"