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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 small group of Jews escape from occupied Europe during the Holocaust but not informing the majority about the reality of what awaited them in Auschwitz, leading to thousands of deaths. He was assassinated in 1957 after an Israeli court accused him of having collaborated with the Nazis. 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. When the Nazis invaded Hungary in March 1944, he helped refugees escape. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rezső Kasztner has received more than 247,527 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Rezső Kasztner is the 5,256th most popular politician (up from 5,394th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Romania (up from 94th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Romanian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rezső Kasztner ranks 5,256 out of 15,577. Before him are Momčilo Krajišnik, Mitt Romney, Marie Thérèse of France, John VIII, Count of Vendôme, Kim Jong-nam, and Hans Jeschonnek. After him are Saad Zaghloul, Acamapichtli, Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, Ovadia Yosef, Bojang of Goguryeo, and James III of Majorca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Rezső Kasztner ranks 84. Before him are Lillian Asplund, John Carradine, Markos Vafeiadis, Hans Aumeier, George Wald, and Horst Schumann. After him are Luis Federico Leloir, Primo Carnera, Jacques Becker, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, Heinrich Schwarz, and Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev. Among people deceased in 1957, Rezső Kasztner ranks 59. Before him are Antonín Zápotocký, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Qi Baishi, Moša Pijade, Sacha Guitry, and Henry Norris Russell. After him are Johann Rattenhuber, Arnold van Gennep, Alfonso de Portago, Pedro Infante, Shoghi Effendi, and Leo Perutz.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Rezső Kasztner ranks 92 out of 665. Before him are Vladimir Cosma (1940), Olga Szabó-Orbán (1938), Clara Haskil (1895), Nicolae Iorga (1871), György Kurtág (1926), and Arnold Hauser (1892). After him are Ana Aslan (1897), Dositej Obradović (1742), Prince Nicholas of Romania (1903), Ion Creangă (1837), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Artur Phleps (1881).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Rezső Kasztner ranks 40. Before him are Stephen Bocskai (1557), Chivu Stoica (1908), Petru Groza (1884), Petru Rareș (1487), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), and Nicolae Iorga (1871). After him are Christopher Báthory (1530), Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902), Andrew Báthory (1563), Pertevniyal Sultan (1812), Vasile Milea (1927), and Gabriel Báthory (1589).

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