Two of the best general books on the history of the Holocaust in Hungary and the rescue effort in particular are the two volume work by Randolph Braham, The Politics of Genocide and the work of Yehuda Bauer, Jews For Sale? For a full list of more detailed sources please see the references below.

Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Aronson, Shlomo and Richard Breitman
Year: 1993
Title: The End of the "Final Solution"? Nazi Plans to Ransom Jews in 1944
Journal: Central European History
Volume: 25
Issue: 2
Pages: 177-203


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Barri, Shoshana
Year: 1997
Title: The Question of Kastner's Testimonies on Behalf of Nazi War Criminals
Journal: The Journal of Israeli History
Volume: 18
Issue: 2-3
Pages: 139-165


Reference Type: Book Section
Author: Bauer, Yehuda
Year: 1977
Title: The Negotiations Between Saly Mayer and the Representatives of the S.S. in 1944-1945
Editor: Zuroff, Yisrael Guttman and Efraim
Book Title: Rescue Attempts during the Holocaust: Proceedings of the Second Yad Vashem International Historical Conference - April 1974
City: Jerusalem
Publisher: Yad Vashem
Pages: 5-45


Reference Type: Book
Author: Bauer, Yehuda
Year: 1981
Title: American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945
City: Detroit
Publisher: Wayne State University Press


Reference Type: Book
Author: Bauer, Yehuda
Year: 1994
Title: Jews for Sale? Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1933-1945
City: New Haven and London
Publisher: Yale University Press


Reference Type: Book
Author: Ben-Yehuda, Nachman
Year: 1993
Title: Political Assassination by Jews: A Rhetorical Device for Justice
Series Editor: Stone, Ronal
Series Title: SUNY Series in Israeli Studies
City: Albany
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Notes: See especially chapter 8


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Bigart, Justin
Year: 1961
Title: Israel Defends Tribunal’s Right to Try Eichmann: Ex-Nazi is More Confident as Jerusalem Hearing Enters its 2nd Day
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: April 12
Pages: 1,16


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Bigart, Justin
Year: 1961
Title: Eichmann Denies Ordering Deaths: Tells Israelis He Was Only in Charge of Nazis’ Transportation of Jews
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: April 21
Pages: 1,12


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Bigart, Justin
Year: 1961
Title: Eichmann To Say He Helped Jews: Israelis to Fight Trial Pleas He Had No Part in Deaths
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: April 23
Page: 37


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Bilsky, Leora
Year: 2001
Title: Judging Evil in the Trial of Kastner
Journal: Law and History Review
Issue: Spring
Volume: 19
Number: 1


Reference Type: Book
Author: Biss, Andre (Andreas)
Year: 1966, 1973, 1975
Title: A Million Jews to Save: Check to the Final Solution (in German, Der Stopp der Endlosung)
City: South Brunswick and New York
Publisher: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1975 (first published by Seewald Verlag, Stuttgrat, 1966)
Translator: Hutchinson & Co., 1973


Reference Type: Book
Author: Bower, Tom
Year: 1997, 1998
Title: Nazi Gold
City: New York
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Number of Pages: 404
Edition: Revised (1998)
ISBN: 0-06-109982-1
Notes: See especially pages 61-62, 161, 229-230, 236, 257, 288, 290-293, 312 and 320 for information on Hungarian Jews and Hungary


Reference Type: Book
Author: Braham, Randolph L.
Year: 1994
Title: The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary 2 vols
Series Title: East European Monographs
City: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Notes: See especially Chapter 29 (vol 2 pp. 1058-1169)


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Cale, Ruth
Year: 1958 (March 3)
Title: The Kastner Case Closed
Journal: Congress Weekly
Pages: 5-7
Notes: This article reports on the rejection by the Israeli Supreme Court of the findings of Judge Benjamin Halevy re: Kasztner


Reference Type: Book
Author: Conway, John S.
Year: 1986
Title: The Holocaust In Hungary: Recent Controversies and Reconsiderations
Editor: Braham, Randolph L.
Book Title: The Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry: Essays, Documents, Depositions
City: New York
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Pages: 1-48


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Correspondent
Year: 1960 (December 9)
Title: "No Reason to Repent" Eichmann's Doctored Version of the Kastner Affair
Journal: Jewish Observer and Middle East Review
Notes: This article comments on a series of stories appearing in Life Magazine in December, 1960 based on interviews with Adolf Eichmann.


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Dawidowicz, Lucy S.
Year: n/d
Title: Ben Hecht's "Perfidy"
Journal: Commentary
Pages: 260-265
Notes: Dawidowicz concludes, "Hecht's accusations against Jewish leaders recall Joe McCarthy's charges of treason."


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Dean, Gideon
Year: 1956
Title: The Kastner Affair
Journal: The Reconstructionist
Issue: January 27
Pages: 9-15
Notes: Gideon Dean was the pen name of an Israeli journalist originally from the US who was reporting on the trial for the Reconstructionist.


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Dean, Gideon
Year: 1956
Title: The Kastner Affair II
Journal: The Reconstructionist
Issue: February 10
Pages: 13-19
Notes: This is the second of two articles by Dean appearing in The Reconstructionist on the trial.


Reference Type: Book
Author: Dombrady, Lorand
Year: 1986
Title: Hadsereg es Politika Magyarorszagon, 1938-1944 (The Military and Politics in Hungary)
City: Budapest
Publisher: Kossuth Konyvkiado (Kossuth Publishing Co.)


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Friling, Tuvia
Year: 1999
Title: Nazi-Jewish Negotiations in Istanbul in Mid-1944
Journal: Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Volume: 13
Issue: 3
Pages: 405-436


Reference Type: Book
Author: Fuchs, Abraham
Year: 1984, 1998
Title: The Unheeded Cry (in Hebrew Karati V'Ein Oneh)
Series Title: The ARtScroll History Series
City: Brooklyn, NY
Publisher: Mesorah Publications, Ltd.
Translator: Abraham Fuchs
Notes: "The gripping story of Rabbi Weissmandl, the valiant Holocaust leader who battled both Allied indifference and Nazi hatred." - Fuchs. See especially chapters 8-13 for the attempt to rescue Hungarian Jewry.


Reference Type: Book
Author: Fulop, Mihaly and Peter Sipos
Year: 1998
Title: Magyarorszag Kulpolitikaja a XX Szazadban (Hungarian Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century)
Publisher: Aula
ISBN: 963 9078 60 3


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Gilroy, Harry
Year: 1955
Title: Israeli Cabinet Asked to Resign: Sharett to Force the Action Today in a Dispute Over Handling of Libel Suit
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: June 29
Page: 5


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Gilroy, Harry
Year: 1955
Title: Kastner’s Case Embitters Israel’s Party Struggles: Outcome of Election Will Be Influenced By Split in the Government Coalition
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: July 3
Section: IV
Page: 5


Reference Type: Book
Author: Hecht, Ben
Year: 1961
Title: Perfidy
City: New York
Publisher: Julian Mesner


Reference Type: Book
Author: Hirschman, Ira A.
Year: 1946
Title: Life Line to the Promised Land
City: New York
Publisher: Vanguard Press


Reference Type: Book
Author: John, Robert St.
Year: 1962
Title: The Man Who Played God: A Novel About Hungary and Israel 1944-1956
City: New York
Publisher: Doubleday & Co.


Reference Type: Book
Author: Kasztner, Rezso
Year: 1946, 1961
Title: Der Bericht des judischen Rettungskomitees aus Budapes, 1942-1945 (mimeo ms); later published as Der Kasztner-Bericht uber Eichmanns Menschenhandel in Ungarn
City: Munich
Publisher: Kindler
Notes: Edited by Ernest Landau. The original manuscript was written by Kasztner in 1946 in Basel, Switzerland, for presentation to the World Zionist Organization. It was privately translated into English by Hilda Wolin at my request and with the assistance of Ms. Jessica Schoeffler.


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Katz, Shlomo
Year: 1962
Title: Ben Hecht's Kampf
Journal: Midstream
Issue: Winter
Pages: 92-101
Notes: A highly critical review of Ben Hecht: "The Big Lie is always difficult to refute."


Reference Type: Book
Author: Kranzler, David
Year: 1987
Title: Thy Brother's Blood: The Orthodox Jewish Response to the Holocaust
Series: Artscroll Judaiscope Series
City: New York
Publisher: Mesorah Publications, Ltd.


Reference Type: Book
Author: Lahav, Penina
Year: 1997
Title: Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century
City: Berkeley/Los Angeles/London
Publisher: University of California Press
Notes: See especially Chapter 7 on the thinking of the Israeli Supreme Court in the Kasztner case


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Laqueur, Walter Z.
Year: 1955
Title: The Kastner Case: Aftermath of the Catastrophe
Journal: Commentary
Volume: 20
Issue: 6
Pages: 500-511


Reference Type: Book
Author: Levai, Eugene (Jeno)
Year: 1948
Title: Black Book on the Martyrdom of Hungarian Jewry
City: Zurich, Switzerland
Publisher: The Central European Times
Number of Pages: 475 (+ 133 pages of photographs)


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Luban, David
Year: 2001
Title: A Man Lost in the Gray Zone
Journal: Law and History Review
Issue: Spring
Volume: 19
Number: 1


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Maoz, Asher
Year: 2000
Title: Historical Adjudication: Courts of Law, Commissions of Inquiry, and "Historical Truth"
Journal: Law and History Review
Issue: Fall
Volume: 18
Number: 3


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1955
Title: Sharrett Ousts One Party: Forms New Israeli Regime
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: June 30
Pages: 1, 5


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1955
Title: Zionist Ex-Leader Accused of Perjury
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: July 8
Page: 8


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1955
Title: Israeli Case Revived: Perjury Trial of Dr. Kastner Moved to Jerusalem
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: August 1
Page: 2


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1955
Title: Israel Libel Appeal Due: Decision in Nazi Collaboration Case to Be Challenged
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: August 22
Page: 21


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1956
Title: Perjury Charged to Israel Ex-Aide: Case Part of Legal Drama Against Former Official Called Nazi Collaborator
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: February 6
Page: 5


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1956
Title: Key Israeli Case Takes New Turn: Jurist Drops Perjury Count Against Kastner, Branded a Nazi Collaborator
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: March 16
Page: 3


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1956
Title: Israeli Court Frees Kastner of Perjury
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: March 17
Page: 3


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1957
Title: Israeli Shot in Street: Kastner, Libel Case Figure, Wounded by Assailant
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: March 4
Page: 4


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1957
Title: Israel Holds Four in Kastner Attack
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: March 5
Page: 6


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1957
Title: Two Confess Shooting: Israeli Police Link Extremists to Attack on Dr. Kastner
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: March 15
Page: 4


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1957
Title: Israeli ‘Quisling’ Dead of Wounds: Dr. Kastner, Branded a Nazi Collaborator, Succumbs to an Assassin’s Bullets
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: March 16
Page: 3


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1957
Title: U.S. Urges Israel Use ‘Restraint’ In Stand on Gaza: Extremists Rounded Up
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: March 18
Pages: 1,3


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1957
Title: Israel Will Try Three In Murder: Terrorists Are Said to Have Plotted Against Premier After Several Slayings
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: May 23
Page: 11


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1957
Title: Israeli Trial Opens: Three Men Plead Innocent in Kastner Slaying
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: July 3
Page: 5


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1958
Title: 3 Israelis Get Life In Kastner Slaying
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: January 8
Page: 6


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1958
Title: Kastner Cleared By Israeli Court: Supreme Tribunal Reverses Ruling He Sacrificed Jews in Hungary to Nazis
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: January 16
Page: 2


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1958
Title: Chief Judge Backs Kastner Clearing
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: January 17
Page: 6


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: n/a
Year: 1958
Title: Accuser Found Guilty of Libel; An Israeli Court Clears Kastner: Majority Decision of Supreme Tribunal Rules Man Charged With Aid to Nazis Risked Life for Jews in Hungary
Journal: The New York Times
Issue: January 18
Page: 3


Reference Type: Book
Author: Rohmer, Richard
Year: 1997
Title: Golden Phoenix: The Biography of Peter Munk
City: Toronto
Publisher: Key Porter Books, Ltd.
Number of Pages: 360
ISBN: 1-55013-912-6
Notes: See especially Chapter 1-3 which deal with the Munk family's rescue from the Holocaust in Hungary via Bergen Belsen as a result of their participation in the Kasztner transport.


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Rose, Paul L.
Year: 1991
Title: Joel Brand's "Interim Agreement" and the Course of Nazi-Jewish Negotiations, 1944-1945
Journal: Historical Journal
Volume: 34
Issue: 4
Pages: 909-929


Reference Type: Book
Author: Segev, Tom
Year: 1991, 1993
Title: The Seventh Million
City: New York
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Translator: From Hebrew by Haim Watzman
Notes: See especially Part V (pgs 255-320)


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Sloan, Jacob
Year: 1958 (December 26)
Title: From the Trial of Rudolf Kastner
Journal: The Reconstructionist
Pages: 29-31
Notes: This article explores the dilemma of the Jewish community leader under duress by focusing on the testimony of Philip Freudiger at the so-called Kasztner trial (it was really a libel trial in which Kasztner was the plaintif against Malkiel Grunwald).


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Strigler, Mordecai
Year: 1955 (August)
Title: The Kastner Case
Journal: Jewish Frontier
Pages: 10-16
Notes: Strigler seems to have a highly critical view of Kasztner, though this article is not clear as to his reason other than a generally dim view of anyone who cooperated with the Nazis for any reason.


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Syrkin, Marie
Year: 1962 (January)
Title: Perfidy and Stale Venom
Journal: Jewish Frontier
Pages: 13-17


Reference Type: Book
Author: Toth, Sandor (Alexander)
Year: 1985
Title: Magyarorszag Hadtortenete V. 2 "A Kiegyezestol Napjainkig" (The Military History of Hungary)
City: Budapest
Publisher: Zrinyi Katonai Kiado (Zrinyi Military Publishers)


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Warburg, Gustav
Year: 1947 (October)
Title: Rescuing Hungarian Jews
Journal: The Jewish Monthly
Pages: 26-37
Notes: Cited by Braham, PG, p. 1154


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Warburg, Gustav
Year: 1954
Title: The Strange Case of Joel Brand
Journal: Jewish Observer and Middle East Review
Volume: 3
Notes: Cited by Braham, PG, p 1154


Reference Type: Book
Author: Weissberg, Joel Brand and Alex
Year: 1958
Title: Desperate Mission: Joel Brand's Story as told by Alex Weissberg
City: New York
Publisher: Criterion Books
Translator: From the German by Constantine FitzGibbon and Andrew Foster-Melliar


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Weitz, Yechiam
Year: 1994
Title: The Herut Movement and the Kasztner Trial
Journal: Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Volume: 8
Issue: 3
Pages: 349-371
Notes: Yechiam Weitz is a historian at Haifa University (a lecturer in the Department of Eretz Israel Studies) and a friend of Zsuzsi Kasztner. His research is summed up in a book of his in Hebrew under the title, The Man Who Was Killed Twice.


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Weitz, Yechiam
Year: 1994
Title: Changing Conceptions of the Holocaust: The Kasztner Case
Journal: Studies in Contemporary Jewry: An Annual
Pages: 211-230
Notes: A publication of The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Weitz, Yechiam
Year: n/d
Title: Political Dimensions of Holocaust Memory in Israel During the 1950s
Journal: The Shaping of Israeli Identity
Pages: 129-145


Reference Type: Edited Book
Author: Zuroff, Efraim and Yisrael Gutman
Year: 1977
Title: Rescue Attempts During the Holocaust
City: Jerusalem
Publisher: Yad Vashem
Number of Pages: 679