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    The Aid and Rescue Committee, or Va'adat Ha-Ezrah ve-ha-Hatzalah be-Budapesht (Vaada for short; name in Hebrew: ועדת העזרה וההצלה בבודפשט) was a small...
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    The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 as the International...
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    Germany had reached a "new level of fantasy and self-deception." Another member of the Aid and Rescue Committee, Rudolf Kastner, was involved with Brand...
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  • Kastner train (category Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust)
    Kastner, a Hungarian-Jewish lawyer and journalist, who was a founding member of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee, a group that smuggled Jews out of...
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    Rezső Kasztner (category People who rescued Jews during the Holocaust)
    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...
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    and 19 July. In a series of meetings beginning on 25 April, Eichmann met with Joel Brand, a Hungarian Jew and member of the Aid and Rescue Committee....
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    Jenő; 25 April 1906 – 13 July 1964) was a member of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee (Va'adat ha-Ezra ve-ha-Hatzala be-Budapest or Va'ada), an underground...
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  • In particular he blamed Rudolf Kastner of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee. The committee had organized safe passage for Jews into Hungary before...
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  • Vaad (category Hebrew words and phrases)
    For the Va'adat Ezrah Vehatzalah, known as the Vaad, see Aid and Rescue Committee Vaad (ועד‎) is a Hebrew term for a council. Often it refers to a council...
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    withheld it in order not to jeopardize negotiations between the Aid and Rescue Committee and Adolf Eichmann, the SS officer in charge of the transport of...
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    his possession, which came from payments made to him by the Aid and Rescue Committee, and from property he had confiscated in Hungary. Of the luggage...
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    Hansi Brand (category People who rescued Jews during the Holocaust)
    activist who was involved, as a member of the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee, in efforts to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Brand was born in Budapest...
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  • refer to: Vaada (2005 film), a 2005 Indian film Vaada, the Zionist Aid and Rescue Committee active in Hungary during the Holocaust Vaada (2010 film), 2010...
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    to save the Jews of Europe. It officially began operating on 31 January 1943. Vaad Hatzalah Aid and Rescue Committee Porat (1990), p. 430 v t e v t e...
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    Strasshof an der Nordbahn (category Cities and towns in Gänserndorf District)
    at Strasshof survived due to an agreement between the Aid and Rescue Committee of Budapest and Adolf Eichmann. On 2 December 1944 the marshalling yard...
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    Ministry of Commerce and Industry, a senior member of Mapai, and the former de facto head of the Hungarian-Jewish Aid and Rescue Committee during the Holocaust...
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    Germany. On 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler abruptly broke the non−aggression pact and invaded the Soviet Union. The Soviet territories occupied by early 1942,...
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    Theresienstadt Ghetto (category Buildings and structures in the Ústí nad Labem Region)
    Eppstein, Zucker, and other Theresienstadt leaders were allowed to sign SS-dictated letters, which were sent to the Aid and Rescue Committee, a Jewish organization...
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    Kastner trial (category Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust)
    helped to found the Budapest Aid and Rescue Committee, had in effect collaborated with Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962) and Kurt Becher (1909–1995), two SS officers...
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    The Holocaust in the Soviet Union (category Jews and Judaism in the Soviet Union)
    Redlich, Shimon (1995). War, Holocaust, and Stalinism: A Documented Study of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in the USSR. Luxembourg: Harwood Academic...
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  • The journey had been arranged by Rudolf Kastner of the Zionist Aid and Rescue Committee, as a result of secret negotiations with Adolf Eichmann—the high-ranking...
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    and the severing of ties with him by his organization, the Emergency Rescue Committee. He was the first of five Americans to be recognized as "Righteous...
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    Joel Teitelbaum (category Articles having same image on Wikidata and Wikipedia)
    and failed to engage in the preparation of rescue and aid plans. As the situation of Hungarian Jews became dangerous, Teitelbaum equipped himself and...
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  • Brand (1907–1964), Holocaust survivor; co-founder of the Hungarian Aid and Rescue Committee Johannes Brand (1823–1888), fourth president of the Orange Free...
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    5195/cbp.2011.164. ISSN 2163-839X. Rudling, Per Anders (2021). "Saving the OUN from a Collaborationist and Possibly Fascist Fate: On the Genealogy of the...
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  • lives to rescue Jews individually or in small groups. Several thousand Jews also survived by hiding in dense forests in Eastern Europe, and as Jewish...
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  • Like sheep to the slaughter (category Zionism and antisemitism)
    was an option for the masses, and the activity of rescue groups such as the Aid and Rescue Committee was viewed more favorably. Public opinion shifted...
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    including humanitarian aid. More than eleven countries provided teams with search and rescue dogs to locate victims under the debris and monetary support was...
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    ISBN 978-1584651444. Broch, Ludivine (2015). "French Railway Workers and the Question of Rescue During the Holocaust (Les cheminots français et la question du...
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    Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes...
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