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Rezső Kasztner

1906 - 1957

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Rezső Kasztner (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkastnɛr ˈrɛʒøː]; 1906 – 15 March 1957), also known as Rudolf Israel Kastner (Hebrew: ישראל רודולף קסטנר), was a Hungarian-Israeli journalist and lawyer who became known for having helped a group of Jews escape from occupied Europe during the Holocaust on the Kastner train. After World War II, he was accused of having failed to inform the majority of Hungarian Jews about the reality of what awaited them in Auschwitz. He was assassinated in 1957 after an Israeli court accused him of having "sold his soul to the devil," a charge that was overturned by the Supreme Court of Israel in 1958. Kasztner was one of the leaders of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee (Va'adat Ezrah Vehatzalah, or Vaada), which smuggled Jewish refugees into Hungary during World War II. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rezső Kasztner has received more than 271,004 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 20 in 2019). Rezső Kasztner is the 5,467th most popular politician (down from 5,242nd in 2019), the 96th most popular biography from Romania (down from 92nd in 2019) and the 41st most popular Romanian Politician.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.50

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  • 1.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rezső Kasztner ranks 5,467 out of 19,576. Before him are Maurice, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Shebitku, Ninus, Coenus of Macedon, Armando Guebuza, and Bertha of Savoy. After him are Maria of Montpellier, Ishbi-Erra, Shuttarna I, Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Llywelyn the Great.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Rezső Kasztner ranks 83. Before him are Primo Carnera, Muzafer Sherif, Markos Vafeiadis, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Edmond Debeaumarché, and Brigitte Helm. After him are Vera Menchik, Phạm Văn Đồng, Franz Hössler, Carlo Scarpa, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, and Joaquín Balaguer. Among people deceased in 1957, Rezső Kasztner ranks 62. Before him are Max Amann, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Eugène Schueller, Qi Baishi, Édouard Herriot, and Louis B. Mayer. After him are Arnold van Gennep, Theodor Körner, Pedro Infante, Shoghi Effendi, Tomitaro Makino, and Gaston Aumoitte.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Rezső Kasztner ranks 96 out of 844. Before him are György Kurtág (1926), Princess Ileana of Romania (1909), Vladimir Cosma (1940), Fritz Klein (1888), Károly Kerényi (1897), and László Bölöni (1953). After him are Farkas Bolyai (1775), Ben Ferencz (1920), Aureolus (220), Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902), Christopher Báthory (1530), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Rezső Kasztner ranks 41. Before him are László Rajk (1909), Mihnea cel Rău (1462), Mircea II of Wallachia (1422), Nicolae Iorga (1871), Pertevniyal Sultan (1812), and Horia Sima (1907). After him are Ben Ferencz (1920), Aureolus (220), Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902), Christopher Báthory (1530), Mundzuk (368), and Andrew Báthory (1563).

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