My late father dedicated his final years to writing about the connection between the Holocaust and the Christianity of most Hungarians (Moshe Y. Herczl, Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry, New York University Press, 1993). He tried to understand how it was possible that during a mere eight weeks in 1944 – when it was already obvious that Germany would lose the war, and despite allocating only 100-200 people to the project – the Germans nevertheless managed to recruit both Hungary’s establishment and its people, and so managed to deport to their deaths almost half a million Jews. The writer was Israel’s first ambassador to the Baltic states after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, ambassador to South Africa, and congressional liaison officer at the embassy in Washington.
Author: BY TOVA HERZL
Published at: 2025-04-16 22:53:56
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