Berend, Béla (1911 - 1987)

Chief Rabbi of Szigetvár and member of the Second, Third and Fourth Jewish Councils. He was suspected of being an informant for the government. In 1946 he was sentenced to ten years in prison for collaborating with the Hungarian authorities during the Holocaust, but acquitted on appeal in 1947. In 1948, Berend emigrated to the United States where he changed his name to Albert B. Belton.