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   Edward C. Zimmermann on February 21, 2010 at 4:32 am

   The town Hegyeshalom was settled by Jews after the defeat of the Ottomans: Hegelshalm became Hegyeshalom.

   In WW-II the town was part of the death march route::
   [
   http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/anger.html ]

   “One of the first days in December 1944 Wallenberg and I took a car ride along the road the Jews [were] marching on. We passed these crowds of miserable people, more dead than alive. With gray faces they staggered forward under chops and hits from the soldier’s rifles. The road was lined by dead bodies. We had our car filled with food that we managed to distribute in spite of prohibitions, but it didn’t last very long. At Hegyeshalom we saw how the ones who arrived were handed over to a German SS commando under Eichmann, who counted them like cattle. ‘489–correct’ (‘vierhundertneunundachtzig–stimmt gut!’). The Hungarian officer received a receipt that everything was in order.

   Before this handing over we managed to save some hundreds of Jews. Some had Swedish protective passes, others were gotten out by pure bluffing. Wallenberg didn’t give up and made renewed journeys when he in similar ways managed to reunite some additional Jews with Budapest.”

   See also:

   
   http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Sessions/Session-061-04.html

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   Pier Marton on February 22, 2010 at 9:12 am

   Thanks Edward!
   Lack of historical knowledge around so-called minorities is so pervasive… like the tips of icebergs.
   So little is visible…
   Maybe we are already shipwrecked, and ecology is but just one aspect of this particular blind-spot.