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Draft:Lajos Stockler

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Stöckler Lajos (English: Louis Stockler), was born 21 January 1897, industrialist, and member of the Third and Fourth Jewish Councils in Hungary.[1] During the Szálasi fascist regime,[2] he became de facto head of the Jewish Council of Budapest and one of the leaders of the Neologue Jewish community and "large" Budapest ghetto. He remains a controversial figure in Hungarian Jewry's history[3] .

When the Arrow Cross Party took power on 15 October 1944, Samu Stern at first remained the nominal head of the Jewish Council of Budapest albeit in hiding, and during this precarious period Stöckler stepped into leadership roles[2] vacated by others who were in hiding or had fled such as Rezső Kasztner. "He [Stöckler] soon emerged as a gadfly on the council challenging the secrecy with which the top leaders conducted their deliberations and reached decisions for which the entire council were to be made responsible for. He [later] summarised his opposition to the triumvirate in his condemnatory sworn testimony to State Police."[4]

Stöckler and family also deviated from the other members of the Jewish Council of Budapest by refusing to take advantage of the opportunity offered by the Regents' exemption policies and continued to wear the yellow star in solidarity with the Jewish masses[4]. He is recognised for working tirelessly in his role as the Jewish community's head of the Budapest ghetto.[4]

After the war, he became President of the Pest Israelite Congregation and the National Office of Hungarian Israelites, and head of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites, forcefully set up by the soviet regime[5].

16 January 1953, Stöckler was arrested[6] alongside co-accused of Miksa Domonkos [4] [6] and Dr. László Benedek[5] in relation to fabricated charges of murdering Raoul Wallenberg[5] with Károly Szabó and Pál Szalai[7] as witnesses. All men were brutally tortured as part interrogations by the ÁVH State Protection Authority to extract forced "confessions".[8] Stöckler was convicted [5]in a show trial and again subjected to torture throughout the period of his incarceration in Kőbánya State Prison until released in the Spring of 1954. In 1957 he emigrated to Sydney Australia[5] and was reunited with both his sons. He died shortly thereafter in 1960[1].

Stöckler Lajos circa 1947
1948 Officer's cross of the Hungarian Republic Order decoration ceremony in Parliament. With his back to us is Lajos Dinnyes, in front of him is Stockler Lajos, while the one with the moustache behind him is Domonkos Miksa. On the other side of the woman standing next to Domonkos is Dr. Laszlo Benedek head physician.

References

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  1. ^ a b EHRI - European Holocaust Research Infrastructure, Magdalena Sedlicka (2014). "JMP Person list for Jewish Communities Guide". EHRI Portal.
  2. ^ a b Schmidt, Maria (1990). Kollaboráció vagy kooperáció? A Budapesti Zsidó Tanács [Collaboration or Cooperation? The Jewish Council of Budapest] (in Hungarian). Minerva. ISBN 963-223-438-3.
  3. ^ Meyer, Peter (2012). Jews in the Soviet satellites. Literary Licensing, LLC. ISBN 978-1258390815.
  4. ^ a b c d Braham, Randolph L. (1981). The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary. Vol. 1–2. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-04496-8.
  5. ^ a b c d e Szabó, Róbert (2024). "Anti-Zionism in the show trials in Rákosi era Hungary (1948–1953)". Journal of Modern Jewish Studies: 1–26 – via Taylor & Francis.
  6. ^ a b Ember, Maria (1992). Ránk akarták kenni (Translation: They wanted to smear it on us). Héttorony Publishing House, 116 p. + 24 pages of image and document appendix. ISBN 978-9637855412.
  7. ^ Korányi, Erwin K. (2006). Dreams and Tears: Chronicle of a Life. General Store Publishing House. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-1-897113-47-9.
  8. ^ Interview with István Domonkos Archived 2007-10-23 at the Wayback Machine, son of Miksa Domonkos who died after the show trial preparations (in Hungarian)
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