1944
LISBON, PORTUGAL: ARRIVAL OF PROMINENT HUNGARIAN JEWISH INDUSTRIALISTS
(excerpts from: a War
Refugee Board letter of July 4, 1944 to the Secretary of State; HIAS Emigration
Assoc. to War Refugee Board)
“In
confirmation of the Embassy’s telegram No. 2054,
July
1, 1944, 1 p.m., I have the honor to report that on
June
26 and 27, 1944, a group of thirty-two Hungarian
Jewish
capitalists and industrialists arrived in Lisbon,
without
previous warning, accompanied by their families.
A
list of the names of the members of this group, together
with
the number and date of the passports issued to the
heads
of the families, is attached hereto….”:
“…
detained on German territory (not in Hungary), as hostages & as the price
of silence, Baron Alphonse,--the husband of Elizabeth Weiss--& a son &
daugter-in-law of Baron Moric Kornfeld….”
“In
Vienna there remained as hostages Hana (Hans?) Muetner, Baron Alfons Weiss,
George S. Kornfeld, wife & children.” (from AMLEGATION, Bern. 7/24,1944, to
Sec’y of State, Washington)
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