Generally, I decided long ago not to comment on the Kasztner story, as there are too many people who have no idea what really happened. But “mezonos maven” gratuitious swipe at Kasztner convinced me to add my own few words.
One FACT is incotroveertible: A train containing well over one thousand jews left Budapest and ultimately reached Switzerland in safety. On that train were the Satmarer rebeb (no zionist, for sure), Rav Jonassan Steif, the Rav of Pest and his whole family and many other jews who had no connection to Kasztner.
Few,if any, other Jews were able to save anything like this number of jews in the war. ALL the stories about saving jews were about non-Jews (Schindler, Wallenberg, the japaneses and swiss consuls). if this train would have been negotiated by a non-jew, we would today put him amongst the “tsadikei umos haolam” and he would be immortalized amongst the righteous gentiles.No one would aks if he kept quiet about other things, no one would aks if he did not tell other jews about the impending catastrophe.he would be universally praised and lauded as a great man.
The ONLY reason why Kasztner has been attacked and is still being attacked today is because he was a Zionist and the guilt lays heavy on all the frum jews who did not see the catastrophe coming.
So, they use him as a scapegoat to condmen Zionism because they cannot admit that Zionism ultimately saved many more jews and gave them all shelter. Simply, it is a lack of “hakoras hatov”.