Word: kastner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ISRAEL Exoneration of Dr. Kastner...
...four years the conscience of Israel has been racked by the case of Dr. Israel Kastner...
Died. Dr. Israel Rudolf Kastner, 50, Hungarian Jewish leader, and central figure in a lacerating controversy in Israel over charges of wartime collaboration with the Nazis (TIME, July 11 1955); of bullet wounds inflicted by terrorists on March 4; in Tel Aviv...
After our recent story of the bitterly emotional Kastner case (TIME, July 11), Israelis praised its fairness. Said a Jerusalem journalist: "None of us could have written the story like that. We are too committed...
...court found Kastner even more guilty. "When he accepted the Nazi offer to save 600 Jewish souls," said the judge, "Kastner sold his soul to the devil. Masses were sacrificed for the sake of a few. He broke his trust with Jewry. That was collaboration in the fullest sense of the word." Among the wider jury of Israel's people, the balance between the few and the many was not so easily struck. The violence of the judge's remarks redounded in a certain sympathy for Kastner. Last week, going back and forth to work in a closed...