With Adolf Eichmann in charge the massive deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz began on May 15, 1944. By July 8 more than 437,000 Hungarian Jews had been sent to Auschwitz; 90 percent went directly from the trains to the gas chambers.
In those few weeks more Jews were gassed and burned at Auschwitz than in the previous eighteen months. Most of them came from the Hungarian countryside,the majority of Budapest's 100,000 Jews were not deported
TheBookHippie When the Arrow Cross unseated Horthy on October 15, however, they set about murdering the Jews of Budapest; 10,000 to 15,000 were shot along the banks of the Danube River. On January 18, 1945 Soviet troops captured Budapest, and for the Jews of Hungary the war came to an end -but not before 550,000 of them had been murdered. 9mo
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CBee Have you read this? 9mo
The Escape Artist
CBee The subject of the book, Rudolf Vrba, tried desperately to get those in power to warn Hungary 🙁 9mo
TheBookHippie @CBee oh I‘ll add that book! So many sad sad evil gut wrenching things … there‘s a good documentary on Netflix about Hungary and the aftermath. 9mo
CBee @TheBookHippie it‘s very good. A bit sad as I‘d never heard of him - he saved so many lives. 9mo
Catsandbooks So horrific, but also importantly educational 9mo