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<div title="My Experience of the Hungarian Holocaust" class="item clearfix layer_info" layer_title="My Experience of the Hungarian Holocaust<br><span>The Controversial Story of Kasztner’s Train</span>" synopsis="~As a child, Professor Ladislaus Löb watched as anti-Semitism slowly tightened its grip on the Hungarian nation, culminating in the Natzi occupation, beginning in 1944. He later wrote a book describing how Rezső Kasztner negotiated with Eichmann, saving Löb and 1,700 other Jews. Kasztner was later accused of collaborating with the Natzis.|&nbsp;~^ 55:14|">
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