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Béla Berend
Béla Berend (born Presser; 12 January 1911 – 24 June 1987) was a Hungarian Jewish rabbi and right-wing Zionist leader during the World War II and the Holocaust. As a controversial member of the Jewish Council of Budapest (or Judenrat), he was accused of collaboration with Nazi Germany during a Communist show trial following the war, but he was acquitted. He emigrated to the United States and took the name Albert Bruce Belton. His personality and activity remain the subject of much debate among historians. Early life Béla Presser was born as an eighth child as the son of Adolf Presser and Regina Máriás, into a poor Orthodox Jewish family in Budapest, Austria-Hungary on 12 January 1911. His father, a Talmud, Tanakh and ''Shulchan Aruch'' scholar, held the honorary title of ''Talmid Chakham''. Presser attended the rabbinical seminary of Budapest from 1925 to 1930. Thereafter, he studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary of Breslau between 1930 and 1931. Returning Hungary, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest Ghetto
The Budapest Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto set up in Budapest, Hungary, where Jews were forced to relocate by a decree of the Government of National Unity led by the fascist Arrow Cross Party during the final stages of World War II. The ghetto existed from November 29, 1944, to January 17, 1945. History The area consisted of several blocks of the old Jewish quarter which included the two main synagogues of the city, the Neolog Dohány Street Synagogue and Orthodox Kazinczy Street Synagogue. The ghetto was created on November 29, 1944, by a decree of the Royal Hungarian Government. It was surrounded by a high fence reinforced with planks that was guarded so that contraband could not be sneaked in, and people could not get out. 70,000 Jews were moved into a 0.1 square mile (0,26 square kilometre) zone. The Nazi occupation of Budapest (Operation Margarethe) started on March 19, 1944. The ghetto was established in November 1944, and lasted for less than two months, until the liberatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
