Trading in lives? : operations of the Jewish Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest, 1944-1945 / by Szabolcs Szita ; [translated by Sean Lambert].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Operations of the Budapest Relief and Rescue Committee from 1941 to 1944 -- 2. The German Occupation of Hungary, March 19 1944 -- a. The Special Units Strike Immediately -- 3. The Sonderkommando and the Ungarnaktion -- a. Eichmann on the Move Again -- b. The Organizations of Terror Settle In -- c. Deportation of the First Captives -- d. The Ungarnaktion in Full Swing -- e. The Hungarian Prisoners of the Vienna Gestapo -- f. In the Buda Prison of the Gestapo -- 4. The Deportation of Hungarian Jews in the Eyes of the World -- a. Indifference -- b. Protests -- c. Another German Cover-up Game -- 5. The SS Trading in Human Lives -- a. The First Meetings of the Rescue Committee -- b. The Columbus Street Camp -- c. The SS Buyout Proposal Mediated by Joel Brand -- d. Zionist Youths -- e. The Ordeals of the "Emissary of the Dead" -- f. Some Conclusions -- 6. The "Sample Train" -- a. Departure -- b. The Swiss Reception -- 7. Another Chapter in Human Trade; Forced Labor for the SS -- a. Provincial Jews Sheltered in Strasshof -- b. Camp Life in Greater Vienna -- c. Jews from the Great Hungarian Plain in the Region of Gau Niederdonau -- 8. More Looting--Daylight Robbery on a Different Plain -- a. The Biggest Catch: Ferenc Chorin and the Families of Financiers and Industrial Magnates -- b. Blackmail and "Buyout" Continue -- c. Hopes and Doubts--the Prospects of the Negotiations -- d. Summer Months in Columbus Street -- e. More Kidnappings and Arrests -- 9. An Extraordinary Hostage: J nos Mauthner and the Deputy Chief of the Gestapo in Vienna -- 10. In the Lion's Maw -- a. Those Left behind at the Bergen Camp -- b. December 7; The Second Train to Switzerland -- c. The Arrow Cross Terror and the Re-Filling of the Ungarnlager -- d. Subsequent Negotiations in Switzerland -- e. The Rescue Committee in Budapest, Winter 1944. -- 11. Spring 1945 -- a. Jewish "Family Camps," Late April and Early May 1945 -- b. The Fate of the Rescue Committee's Swiss Charges -- 12. The Bonds Survive -- a. Kasztner, Becher and the Others -- b. The Kasztner Report -- c. Kurt Becher, Savior of the Jews -- d. Kasztner's Subsequent Activities, the Jerusalem Trial -- e. Becher's Single Interview