Saturday Extra

On a Friday in June 1944 an extraordinary event happened in a Budapest railway station. On this day Rezso Kasztner secured the safe passage of over 1,500 Jews to neutral Switzerland.

Hungary was occupied by the Nazis and the final solution had reached its apex, but Kasztner had managed to strike a deal of goods for human life.

Guests

Anna Porter
Author

Publications

Title: Kasztner's Train: The True story of an unknown hero of the Holocaust
Author: Anna Porter
Publisher: Scribe

Presenter

Geraldine Doogue

Story Researcher and Producer

Julie Browning

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