Joel Teitelbaum - The Holocaust

The Holocaust

During the Holocaust, Teitelbaum and his wife were rescued in 1944 in Nazi-controlled Transylvania as a result of a deal between a Hungarian Zionist official, Rudolph Kastner, and a deputy of Adolf Eichmann. Although the Kastner train, on which they were passengers, was first re-routed by the Germans to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the Teitelbaums reached Switzerland.