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The official little known WWII story of a desperate attempt to save Hungarys Jewish population When Nazi troops invaded in March 1944, Hungary contained the largest intact Jewish population in Europe. Until then, stories of Auschwitz and other resettlement camps were still treated as unconfirmed rumors inside Hungary and among the Allied powers. With the arrival of Adolf Eichmann-and reports from the first escapees from Auschwitz confirming the most horrifying rumors about the camps-the 850,000 Jews of Hungary faced annihilation. Emissary of the Doomed is the riveting and heartbreaking account of the heroic attempt to save Hungarys Jewish population. Learning that Eichmann and Himmler were willing to bargain for the lives of as many as one million Jews, Joel Brand and the Jewish rescue committee in Budapest took up the German offer and embarked on a desperate race across Europe and the Middle East to persuade the reluctant Allies to trade funds and matEriel for Jewish lives. Against the backdrop of the Normandy invasion, the Soviet advance across Eastern Europe, and the American advances up the Italian peninsula, Brand and his colleagues tried to stop the final push of the Nazis to destroy the Jews of Europe. This untold chapter will appeal to all readers of World War II literature. Read more...
Abstract: The official little known WWII story of a desperate attempt to save Hungarys Jewish population When Nazi troops invaded in March 1944, Hungary contained the largest intact Jewish population in Europe. Until then, stories of Auschwitz and other resettlement camps were still treated as unconfirmed rumors inside Hungary and among the Allied powers. With the arrival of Adolf Eichmann-and reports from the first escapees from Auschwitz confirming the most horrifying rumors about the camps-the 850,000 Jews of Hungary faced annihilation. Emissary of the Doomed is the riveting and heartbreaking account of the heroic attempt to save Hungarys Jewish population. Learning that Eichmann and Himmler were willing to bargain for the lives of as many as one million Jews, Joel Brand and the Jewish rescue committee in Budapest took up the German offer and embarked on a desperate race across Europe and the Middle East to persuade the reluctant Allies to trade funds and matEriel for Jewish lives. Against the backdrop of the Normandy invasion, the Soviet advance across Eastern Europe, and the American advances up the Italian peninsula, Brand and his colleagues tried to stop the final push of the Nazis to destroy the Jews of Europe. This untold chapter will appeal to all readers of World War II literature
Abstract: The official little known WWII story of a desperate attempt to save Hungarys Jewish population When Nazi troops invaded in March 1944, Hungary contained the largest intact Jewish population in Europe. Until then, stories of Auschwitz and other resettlement camps were still treated as unconfirmed rumors inside Hungary and among the Allied powers. With the arrival of Adolf Eichmann-and reports from the first escapees from Auschwitz confirming the most horrifying rumors about the camps-the 850,000 Jews of Hungary faced annihilation. Emissary of the Doomed is the riveting and heartbreaking account of the heroic attempt to save Hungarys Jewish population. Learning that Eichmann and Himmler were willing to bargain for the lives of as many as one million Jews, Joel Brand and the Jewish rescue committee in Budapest took up the German offer and embarked on a desperate race across Europe and the Middle East to persuade the reluctant Allies to trade funds and matEriel for Jewish lives. Against the backdrop of the Normandy invasion, the Soviet advance across Eastern Europe, and the American advances up the Italian peninsula, Brand and his colleagues tried to stop the final push of the Nazis to destroy the Jews of Europe. This untold chapter will appeal to all readers of World War II literature
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ALSO BY RONALD FLORENCE
NONFICTION
Lawrence and Aaronsohn
Blood Libel
The Perfect Machine
The Optimum Sailboat
Marxs Daughters
Fritz
FICTION
The Last Season
The Gypsy Man
Zeppelin
Lawrence and Aaronsohn
Blood Libel
The Perfect Machine
The Optimum Sailboat
Marxs Daughters
Fritz
FICTION
The Last Season
The Gypsy Man
Zeppelin
Ronald Florence
VIKING
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First published in 2010 by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Copyright Ronald Florence, 2010
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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. JewsPersecutionsHungary. 2. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Hungary. 3. World War, 1939-1945JewsRescueHungary. 4. Brand, Joel, 1906-1964. 5. HungaryEthnic relations. I. Title.
DS135.H9F66 2010
940.53183509439dc22 2009035922
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To the memory of the hundreds of thousands
who might have been saved
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
Budapest, April 1944
At that time we knew nothing of Auschwitz.
Philip von Freudiger
God has sent me ahead of you to ensure your survival on earth, and to save your lives in an extraordinary deliverance.
Genesis 45:7
On the morning of April 25, 1944, his thirty-eighth birthday, Joel Brand waited outside the Caf Opera, across from the Budapest opera house on Andrssy Avenue. Normally, the early hour wouldnt have bothered him: the view of the grand Renaissance-style opera house through the leafy trees was restful, the caf usually had a lively crowd, and it was never too early to find good conversation. But that morning Joel Brand was nervous and uneasy.
By 1944, caf life in most of central Europe had been reduced to ersatz coffee and cautious whispers. Wall posters listed verboten activities punishable by death. It was forbidden to walk on the streets between nine at night and five in the morning; forbidden to keep firearms; forbidden to aid, abet, or shelter escaped prisoners, enemy soldiers, or citizens of countries considered enemies of Germany; forbidden to listen to foreign radio broadcasts; forbidden to refuse German currency; forbidden to be in possession of newspapers other than Nazi-approved official rags. In Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, or Krakow, the cafs were quiet: years of German occupation had made fear too palpable for talk. But Budapest was different. In Budapest, the cafs were still lively. Musicians played, including an occasional fiddler or guitarist who knew something other than the traditional gypsy tunes. You could order Colombian coffee, sweet Tokay wine, fruit brandies, even real pastry if you knew where to look. Women came to the cafs, servant girls in embroidered blouses and full skirts, stylish women in Paris fashions, and the beckoning women who worked the cafs and nightclubs in the evenings. Country gentry showed up in tall boots with pheasant feathers in their hats. And there was conversationbusiness deals, furtive romances, and the relentless cynicism and wit of the wags.
In April 1944, only a month after German troops occupied Hungary, the Jews of Budapest found themselves living under unwelcome new restrictions, but they had not been confined to ghettos. They could still spend time with friends, meet for prayers, attend makeshift concerts, carry on love affairs, try to pursue their professions and businessesand they were welcome in at least some of the cafs. Joel Brand was at home in that demimonde, a devotee of the pastry and brandy, the women, the card games, and especially the conversations. Officially, he was in the knitwear business with his wife Hansi, an attractive woman, dark, voluptuous, long-legged, and buxom. Hansi managed their workshop on Rozsa Street, not far from Andrssy Avenue and the Opera, where ten or twelve weavers picked up leather, patterns, and yarn and brought back stylish leather and knit gloves and fancy stockings. While Hansi ran the workshop, Joel was supposed to sell the gloves and stockings. He was gregarious, effective at selling, and adept at ferreting out black market goods that werent readily available in the shops, like silk stockings, filtered cigarettes, French fragrances, and fine cake flour. But he wasnt happy as a salesman. He preferred meeting women, drinking, playing cards, and caf talk. On a good night at poker he could win what he earned in a week of selling gloves. And he had discovered a pursuit even more exciting than poker.
Working with other Zionists in a secret organization called Vaada, the Hungarian rescue and aid committee,
Brand and his colleagues in Vaada could only rescue a few individuals at a time, but in late 1943, Oskar Schindler, a factory owner in Silesia, had come to Budapest and dined at the fancy Gellrt Hotel, on the Buda bank of the Danube, with Joel Brand and Dr. Schmidt. Brand found Schindler fascinating. Schindler had owned a series of profitable businesses, and from the stories he and others told, he was adept at dealing with the Nazi authorities. By getting his businesses declared essential to the German war effort he succeeded in manipulating his way through the Nazi bureaucracies so he could employ and harbor Jewish workers even while the Jewish populations of the area were being systematically ghettoized and deported. Schindler was aware that Jews from Poland and Slovakia were being smuggled to safety in Hungary. He had contacts with Vaada and had carried funds to Europe from Istanbul for the Jewish Agency. He also knew how to cultivate the German agents and quickly picked up Dr. Schmidts habit of referring to Jews as children.
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