Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl - World War II and The Holocaust

World War II and The Holocaust

Part of a series of articles on the Holocaust
"Blood for goods" proposals
Key figures
  • Kurt Becher
  • Joel Brand
  • Adolf Eichmann
  • Malchiel Gruenwald
  • Heinrich Himmler
  • Rudolf Kastner
  • Rudolf Vrba
  • Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandl
  • Alfréd Wetzler
Issues
  • Aid and Rescue Committee
  • Auschwitz concentration camp
  • Holocaust
  • History of the Jews in Hungary
  • Hungary during the Second World War
  • Kastner trial
  • Kastner train
  • Vrba-Wetzler report/Auschwitz Protocols
Writers, books, films, plays
  • Yehuda Bauer: Jews for Sale?: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945 (1994)
  • Randolph L. Braham: The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary (1981)
  • Jeremy Davidson: Tickling Leo (2009)
  • Tuvia Friling: Arrows in the Dark (1998)
  • Ben Hecht: Perfidy (1961)
  • Raul Hilberg: The Destruction of the European Jews (1961)
  • George Klein: Pietà (1989)
  • Motti Lerner: Kastner (1985), The Kastner Trial (1994)
  • Ladislaus Löb: Rezső Kasztner (2008)
  • Anna Porter: Kasztner's Train (2008)
Kastner train passengers
Kastner train:
  • Avraham Deutsch
  • Dezső Ernster
  • Esther Jungreis
  • Ladislaus Löb
  • Egon Mayer
  • Peter Munk
  • Reuven Schmeltzer
  • Yonasan Steif
  • Leopold Szondi
  • Joel Teitelbaum
  • Béla Zsolt

While at Oxford University, Weissmandl volunteered on 1 September 1939 to return to Slovakia as an agent of World Agudath Israel. Later he was the first to demand that the Allies bomb Auschwitz. When the Nazis gathered sixty rabbis from Burgenland and sent them to Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovakia refused them entry and Austria would not take them back. Rabbi Weissmandl flew to England, where he was received by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Foreign Office. Explaining the tragic situation, he succeeded in obtaining entry visas to England for the sixty rabbis.

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