Christianity and the holocaust of Hungarian Jewry /
The tragedy of Hungarian Jewry reached its climax between the 15th of May and the 7th of July, 1944, when nearly half a million Jews were expelled from Hungary and sent to death camps. The removal of Jews from Hungary - except for those of the capital, Budapest - was absolute, and was carried out ra...
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Table of Contents:
- part 1. The preparatory years: Introduction
- Background
- The blood libel of Tisza Eszlar
- The Catholic people's party
- The revolutions and the white terror
- The Catholic press
- The "numerous clausus" law
- The consolidation of the twenties and the Christian antisemitism of the thirties
- Popular antisemitism of the thirties
- Cross movements and the arrow-cross party
- Conclusion.
- part 2. Anti-Jewish legislation: Introduction
- The first anti-Jewish act
- The eucharistic convention
- In the wake of the act's adoption
- The second anti-Jewish act
- The debate in the upper house: the stand of church leaders
- Extraparliamentary activity during and after the debate on the second anti-Jewish act
- The demand for additional anti-Jewish legislation
- The third anti-Jewish act
- The labor battalions act
- The Jewish religion status-lowering act
- The Jewish estates expropriation act
- The Kalay proposal of rthe expulsion of the Jews from Hungary
- Conclusion.
- part 3. 1944: Introduction
- The expulsion
- Who carried out the expulsion?
- Priestly activity
- The shepherds' epistles
- A quarter of a million Budapest Jews
- trapped
- Hungarian initiatives
- Conclusion.