page_title: Ladislaus Löb
section_title: Kastner train
hierarchical_section_title: Ladislaus Löb / Early life / Kastner train
caption_attribution_description: English: Page L25 from the en:Kastner train passenger list, Budapest, Hungary, June 1944, showing the entry for en:Ladislaus Löb, later Professor of German at the University of Sussex. Author of text: en:Rudolf Kastner or other members of the Budapest en:Aid and Rescue Committee Author of image: Daphna Shezaf
context_page_description: Ladislaus Löb is Professor Emeritus of German at the University of Sussex in England. He is the author of From Lessing to Hauptmann: Studies in German Drama and Christian Dietrich Grabbe.
  Löb is also known for having been a passenger, when he was 11 years old, on the Kastner train, which saw around 1,600 Jews given safe passage out of Hungary to Switzerland during the Holocaust. He has written about his experience in Dealing with Satan: Rezso Kasztner's Daring Rescue Mission. For this book he received the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Award 2012.
context_section_description: In 1944 Löb was taken with his relatives to the Kolozsvár Ghetto (known by its Hungarian name because Northern Transylvania was then under that country's control), but he escaped with his father and joined the “Kasztner group” in Budapest.
  The group consisted of around 1,600 Jews who were given safe passage out of Hungary to Switzerland, as a result of a deal struck between Adolf Eichmann and the Hungarian lawyer and Zionist leader Rudolf Kastner. The group was detained in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp near Hannover, Germany, before Eichmann allowed them to leave for Switzerland in two batches, in August and December 1944. In the 1950s in Israel, Kastner was accused of collaboration and murdered by Jewish extremists.
caption: Page from the Kastner train passenger list, showing the entry for Ladislaus Löb
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