• Rabbi Jacob Jungreis was born in Derecske, Hungary. His father was the rabbi of Szeged.
• His family was deported to Auschwitz in June 1944.
•  Unknowingly, the family had become part of the Kasztner group that was sent to Bergen-Belsen and ransomed to the Jewish-American community in December 1944 for $5 million.
• The group then continued on to a Displaced Persons camp in Switzerland.
• Rabbi Jungreis arrived in the United States in March 1947. He is presently the Rabbi of the Israel Center of Canarsie, Director of Yeshiva Ateres Yisroel Day School, and a member of the Museum of Jewish Heritage’s Speakers Bureau.

 Szeged

Auschwitz

 
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/auschbirk.html

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189
Also http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/layman.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/auschbirk.html

 Bergen Belsen
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Belsen.html
http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%205985.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen-Belsen_concentration_camp

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005224

Kastner

microsoft word - 6428.pdf

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Kastner

DP Camps

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/dptoc.html

http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_holocaust/month_in_holocaust/december/decenber_lexicon/displaced_persons.html

http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/temporary_exhibitions/childsplay/lexicon/displaced_persons.html

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/ (put DP camps in search box)

http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206273.pdf

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005462

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005129

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005418