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out of the shadows and shouted, Are you Dr. Kastner? When he confirmed that he was, the young man

pulled a gun out of his pocket.

Kastner ran towards the entrance but was shot.

Rudolph Israel Kastner died 12 days later in hospital.

Outside number six now, there's a metal plaque with a

Hebrew inscription describing how Kastner lived and was murdered here. Some people

as well here in these programs use the more loaded

term assassinated and that he was a savior of Jews in the Holocaust. But

there aren't many other memorials to him in this country or around the world.

And that's because for almost 60 years now, writers have been debating whether Rudolph Kastner was a savior or a collaborator, a hero or a traitor.

On Monday July 3rd, 1944, a scientist Jew in a suit stood in Adolf Aichman's Budapest office.

Your nerves seem tethered, said Aichman to the men.

Maybe I'll send you on vacation in Auschwitz.

The Zionist Jew who stood before him was unfazed. As a gesture,

demonstrating he was no inferior in front of this interlocuture, he removed a box from his pocket and lit a cigarette.

That was Dr Israel Kastner.

The reason why he was in the room was to negotiate with Aichlan and other Nazi officers thereby saving

tens of thousands of Jews from extermination.

A translation of Marav Michaeli, Dr. Kastner's granddaughter, making her maiden speech as an Israeli MP in 2013.

She's describing the meeting in 1944 when Kastner, as a leader of the Zionist community in Hungary, persuaded as senior Nazi Adolf Eichmann

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