Emissary of the doomed : bargaining for lives in the holocaust

343 Pages·2014·1.63 MB·English

by  Florence, Ronald

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Epigraph

Chapter 1 - Budapest, April 1944
Chapter 2 - When the Germans Came
Chapter 3 - Negotiations
Chapter 4 - Dissembling
Chapter 5 - Bandi
Chapter 6 - Playing for Time
Chapter 7 - Aleppo
Chapter 8 - Brand’s Last Stand
Chapter 9 - The Lull
Chapter 10 - Revelation
Chapter 11 - The Bridge at Sankt Margrethen
Chapter 12 - Endgame
Chapter 13 - Aftermath

Acknowledgements
NOTES
INDEX
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Ronald Florence
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Florence, Ronald.
Emissary of the doomed : bargaining for lives in the Holocaust / Ronald Florence.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN : 978-1-101-18984-9
1. Jews—Persecutions—Hungary. 2. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Hungary. 3. World War, 1939-1945
—Jews—Rescue—Hungary. 4. Brand, Joel, 1906-1964. 5. Hungary—Ethnic relations. I. Title.
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To the memory of the hundreds of thousands
who might have been saved
What a misery to be a minority: Hungarian & Jew.
—Arthur Koestler

Whoever has caused a single soul to perish from mankind Scripture imputes it to him as though he
had caused a whole world to perish. And whoever saves alive a single soul from mankind Scripture
imputes it to him as though he had saved alive a whole world.
—Mishna Sanhedrin 4:5