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Standing up to evil : a Zionist's underground rescue activities in Hungary

Title

Standing up to evil : a Zionist's underground rescue activities in Hungary / Peretz Révész ; original translatiuon from the Hebrew by Izabella Arad ; English edition by Katalin and Jacques Mouyal.

Author

Reves, Perets, 1916-

Publication

Jerusalem : Yad Vashem, the International Institute for Holocaust Research, [2019]
©2019

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Description

359 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Born in 1916 in Holič, Slovakia, Peretz Révész was forced to abandon his medical studies with the onset of the anti-Jewish policy in that country in 1938. After joining the Zionist youth movement Gordonia-Hamaccabi Hatza'ir, he became one of its leaders in 1941, engaging in smuggling members of his movement to neighboring Hungary, where the Jews still enjoyed most civil rights, and playing a significant role in the rescue activities. Upon illegally crossing the Hungarian border with his wife, Nónika, Peretz approached Zionist institutions in Hungary, seeking assistance to aid the many refugees. Fearing the legal implications, they refused to help. He then contacted activist Joel Brand, whom he assisted in establishing the Relief and Rescue Committee, and participated in the smuggling of Jews from Poland in 1943. After Germany invaded Hungary on March 3, 1944, the Zionist underground was organized. Révész assumed a leadership role and undertook several rescue operations. Following the Soviet occupation of Hungary, he continued his activities, including attending to the children and sending them to Eretz Israel. He himself immigrated to Israel with his family in May 1949.Standing Up to Evil is an authentic and fascinating memoir that describes the author's many valiant rescue activities and his undaunted efforts to advance this objective with prominent Jewish and non-Jewish figures. It also offers another perspective on the "Kasztner Affair" and the contacts with SS officials and German counterintelligence, providing an invaluable account of the Holocaust in Hungary.

Uniform Title

Mul naḥshole ha-roʻa. English

Alternative Title

Mul naḥshole ha-roʻa.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.
Personal narratives.

Note

"Mul nahshol haro'a"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

9789653085824
9653085824

LCCN

2021367216
026800009920

OCLC

on1182511246
SCSB-14255985

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library