Jewish Chronicle Article — 01 July 1999

Jewish Chronicle
01 July 1999

IT WAS an easy victory, but

. The battle was fought at Leeds University student union in the early 1980s. [

]. On one side, the controversial far-right historian David Irving. On the other, the massed ranks of the student left, and the cadres of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS), including myself.

Even now, they still remember Kastner in Budapest, and not always with admiration. The libel trial accusations against Kastner centred on the secret deal he made in June 1944 with Eichmann in order to save 1,685 Hungarian Jews, the community’s economic élite, who could afford to pay ,000 each for a train journey to Switzerland.

Adam LeBor takes his old organisation, the Union of Jewish Students, to task over its plans to disrupt performances of a controversial play

Adam LeBor’s book, “Hitler’s Secret Bankers: How Switzerland Profited from Nazi Genocide, ” is published by Simon & Schuster.