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  1. Ferenc Kassai (Schallmayer)

    Hungarian politician. From 1937 he was the follower of Ferenc Szálasi and the Hungarist Movement. After 1938 he was interned several times because of his political attitude. After his release he became the propaganda chief of Arrow Cross Party. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was appointed the Minister of Propaganda. In 1946 the people’s court sentenced him to death and he was executed.

  2. Béla Jurcsek

    Hungarian politician. From 1942 to 1944 he served as state secretary of the Ministry of Welfare. After the German occupation of Hungary he was appointed Minister of Agriculture. He held this position in Lakatos-government. After the Arrow Cross Takeover he served as Minister of Welfare. In April 1945 he committed suicide in Austria.

  3. Árpád Toldi

    Hungarian gendarmerie officer. On 26 April 1944 he was appointed the prefect of the city of Székesfehérvár and Fejér County. From November 1944 he worked as the head of Department XI at the Ministry of the Interior and he was appointed the government commissioner responsible for confiscating and redistributing Jewish assets. He subsequently became commander of the so-called Gold Train. He fled to Switzerland and he was arrested in the spring of 1945, but he was not held accountable.

  4. Giorgo Perlasca

    Italian businessman. As businessman he worked in Budapest from October 1942. After the German occupation of Hungary he was arrested. He managed to get free through the Spanish ambassador’s deputy, Ángel Sanz-Briz, who gave him shelter and documents. At the end of November, when the Spanish diplomatic mission to Budapest finished its Hungarian operations, Perlasca assumed the role of Spanish deputy and placed buildings under Spanish protection. He issued thousands of protective documents, thus saving the lives of many hundreds of people. Yad Vashem awarded him the title “Righteous among the ...

  5. Samu Kahan-Frankl

    Hungarian Orthodox rabbi, head of the Central Office of the Autonomous Orthodox Israelite Denomination of Hungary. He was the member of the Central Jewish Council in 1944. In the summer of 1944 he resigned from his position and he went into hiding. After the war he headed the national Orthodox organization again. He emigrated to Israel in 1950.

  6. Béla Johan

    Hungarian professor of medicine. In 1944 he discontinued the employment of hundreds of Jewish doctors and pharmacists who were performing labour service, facilitating their deportation. After the war he was not held accountable, but in 1949 the communist authorities arrested him for a few months.

  7. Hermann Krumey

    German SS officer. He had contact with Adolf Eichmann and his Jewish affairs department of the Reich Security Main Office during the resettlement of the Warthe District. After the German occupation of Hungary he arrived in Budapest as a member of Eichmann’s Sondereinsatzkommando. He worked with Eichmann on the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. He was arrested in Italy in 1945, but thanks for statement of Rezső Kasztner he was not prosecuted. Later he was sentenced to imprisonment.

  8. Jenő Péterffy

    Hungarian gendarmerie commander. He served as gendarme cadet corps commander in Nagyvárad from 1 May 1943 and in Galánta from 20 August 1944. As gendarmerie commander he played an important role in the ghettoization and deportation of Hungarian Jews. He ordered his men to treat the Jews in brutal manner. After the Arrow Cross takeover he appointed to deputy director of Department XX of the Ministry of the Interior. After the war he was arrested and in December 1945 he was slain in the prison.

  9. Kurt Becher

    German SS officer and businessman. From March 1944 to 1945 he was a special envoy to Heinrich Himmler in Hungary. He negotiated with leading Jewish businessmen, including the Weiss Manfréd Works. He blackmailed them into handing over this large complex to the SS. After the war he was arrested, but he was not held accountable.

  10. dr. Josef Mengele

    German SS officer and physician. From 1943 he was one of the lead physicians at Auschwitz–Birkenau. In the summer of 1944 he supervised the selection process on the Birkenau ramp and he sent tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews to their deaths. In Auschwitz he conducted pseudomedical experiments. After the war he fled to South America in 1949, where he is believed to have died in 1979.

  11. Miksa Domonkos

    Hungarian Jewish engineer. After the German occupation of Hungary he was the head of the Central Jewish Council’s Technical Department. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was one of the large ghetto’s leaders, struggling with great resolve to protect Budapest’s Jews. After the war he became chief secretary of the Pest Israelite Congregation.

  12. Margit Slachta

    Hungarian Catholic nun, one of the leaders of the Christian Women’s Camp and the Society of Sisters of Social Service. As a member of parliament she protested against the deportation of stateless Jews in 1941. In 1944 she accomplished significant Jewish rescue activities along with the other Social Sisters. Yad Vashem awarded her the title “Righteous among the Nations” in 1977.

  13. Sándor Török

    Hungarian writer and Jewish Council member. After the German occupation of Hungary he was appointed the Christian member of the Jewish Council. In July 1944 he became one of the leaders of the Interim Executive Board of the Association of Christian Jews in Hungary. After the Arrow Cross takeover he went into hiding. He survived the world war.

  14. Gábor Faragho

    Hungarian army general. After the German occupation of Hungary as gendarmerie superintendent he played a key role in the deportation of Hungarian Jews. In September 1944 he became the head of the cease-fire delegation in Moscow and he signed the preliminary cease-fire conditions on October 11. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was stripped of his rank. After the war he served as minister of public welfare in the post-war democratic government of 1944–1945.

  15. Lajos Csatay

    Hungarian army officer. He was the minister of defence in Kállay- and Sztójay-government from June 1943 to 15 October 1944. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was arrested. He and his wife committed suicide in prison.

  16. Andor Jaross

    Hungarian politician. After the German occupation of Hungary he was appointed the minister of the interior. He was one of the key figures responsible for the ghettoization and deportation of the Hungarian Jews. During Szálasi’s rule he was copresident of the parliamentary group supporting the Arrow Cross regime. The people’s court sentenced him to death and in 1946 he was executed.

  17. Lajos Stöckler

    Hungarian industrialist. From July 1944 he became the member of the Jewish Council in Budapest. After the Arrow Cross takeover he was the head of the Jewish Council and he played dominant role in organizing food supplies and providing protection for ghetto residents. After the war he became president of the Pest Israelite Congregation and in 1950 he was appointed head of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites. In 1956 he emigrated to Australia.

  18. Jusztinián Serédi

    Archbishop of Esztergom and head of the Hungarian Catholic Church from 1927 until his death. As a member of Upper House he supported and voted in favour of the First and Second “Jewish Laws” in 1938 and 1939, but he rejected the Third “Jewish Law” in 1941. In 1944 he intervened with representatives of the government, primarily on behalf of Jews converted to Christianity.

  19. László Ravasz

    Hungarian Calvinist bishop. As a member of Upper House he supported and voted in favour of the First and Second “Jewish Laws” in 1938 and 1939, but he rejected the Third “Jewish Law” in 1941. In 1944 he faced with the reality of the Holocaust and he tried to do against physical destruction of Hungarian Jews. He took part in church-operated rescue efforts, primarily assisting Jews converted to Christianity.

  20. Zoltán Bosnyák

    Hungarian journalist and race-protectionist ideologist. From 1943 he headed the Hungarian Institute for Research of the Jewish Question. In 1944 he was the editor in chief of Harc (Struggle). The people’s court sentenced him to death and he was executed in 1952.