The Final Solution (lecture Feb2008)

[Index
to Joel Brand file on this website]

Jewish
Book Week

Wednesday
27 February [2008] 1.00PM Royal National Hotel,
Bedford Way, WC1

Rehabilitating Rezsö
Kasztner

Dealing with Satan, Rezso Kasztner’s Daring
Rescue Mission is the story of Rezsö
Kasztner, the man responsible for saving Ladislaus
Lob and 1670 Jewish men, women and children from
Bergen-Belsen.
Combining history with memoir and a remarkably honest analysis of morality and survival, Ladislaus Lob examines the life and actions of a man of extraordinary contradictions.

A highly controversial figure, regarded by some as a traitor and by many others as a hero, Kasztner was eventually murdered by an extremist Jewish gang in
Israel.

Here, Ladislaus Lob discusses his book with Kasztner’s daughter Zsuzi and the historian David Cesarani.

David
Cesarani is research professor in history at Royal
Holloway, University of London. His most recent publications include Eichmann. His Life and Crimes, and The
Jews and the Left/ The Left and the Jews written primarily for Members of Parliament. He is a co-editor of the journal Patterns of Prejudice.

David Cesarani was a member of the British delegation to the International Task
Force for Intergovernmental Cooperation on Holocaust
Education, Remembrance and Research and is currently an advisor to the Home Office on
Holocaust Memorial Day as well as other UK and overseas NGOs.

He served on the advisory board of the
Imperial War Museum’s permanent Holocaust exhibition and has made a number of radio documentaries for the BBC and acted as consultant for several historical programmes on television, including The Irving Trial [The
Lipstadt Trial] (C4, 2000) and I Met Adolf Eichmann (BBC2, 2001).

Ladislaus Lob was born in Transylvania. He is
Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Sussex. He translated Nine Suitcases by Bela Zsolt who was also saved by Kasztner..

Zsuzsi Kasztner was born in Geneva in 1946 and grew up in Tel Aviv. She was eleven when her father was assassinated. She lives in Tel Aviv where she works as a hospital nurse. She has three daughters, one of them
Merav Michaeli, a well-known radio and television presenter.

[Website note: we have added images and corrected mis-spellings in this text]

[Index to
Joel Brand file on this website][Himmler
Index | Interrogation
reports on Himmler and the SS]

©
Focal Point
2008 write to David Irving