We were There - The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation

László Baky (1898-1946) was a gendarme-officer and a politician. He retired from his office in 1938 in
order to become a politician, and in 1939 he became a member of the Hungarian Parliament. He founded
the Hungarian National Socialist Party together with Fidél Pálffy and Jenő Ruszkay in 1941. During the
Sztójay Cabinet in 1944 he was Undersecretary of State for Internal Affairs, and as such he was in charge
of the police and the gendarmerie. He was directly responsible for the deportation of the Hungarian Jews.
After the Arrow Cross coup d'état, he was the director of the National Security Office (an office without
any political power). He was charged with crimes against humanity and executed in 1946.
László Bárdossy (1890-1946) was the Minister for Foreign Affairs between February 14, 1941, and
March 7, 1942 and Prime Minister between April 3, 1941, and March 7, 1942. Hungary entered the war
against Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union under his ministry. In autumn 1944 he became one of the leaders
of the extreme right League of Members of Parliament. After WWII he was found guilty of war crimes and
executed.
Géza Bornemissza (1895-1983) was a mechanical engineer and a politician. He was minister several
times between 1935 and 1944.
Sándor Csia (1894-1946) was a politician. He was associated with Ferenc Szálasi. Beginning in 1939, he
was the representative of the Arrow Cross Party in the Hungarian Parliament. After the war he was
sentenced to death.
Carl Ivan Danielsson (1880–1963) was the Swedish Ambassador to Hungary from 1944–1945.
Danielsson refused to leave his post when Miklós Horthy was overruled. Instead, he supported and
participated in the rescue operation lead by Raoul Wallenberg. He signed Schutz-Passes, personally raising
their protection value, and looked the other way when the permitted quota was exceeded or his
signature was forged. He was responsible for the rescue and protection of tens of thousands of Hungarian
Jews.
Kálmán Darányi (1886-1939) was the Minister for Agriculture from 1935 to 1936, and Prime Minister
between October 10, 1936, and May 14, 1938. The first anti-Jewish law in Hungary was introduced by his
government.
Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962) was a German Lieutenant Coronel for the SS and a major organizer of the
Holocaust. Eichmann was in charge of logistics of the mass deportation of Jews to the death camps
throughout Europe. He was especially involved in the Hungarian deportations that he began in 1944. After
the war, Eichmann escaped to Argentina, where he was eventually apprehended by Israeli undercover
agents and taken to Israel to stand trial. He was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes and
executed in 1962.
László Endre (1895-1946) was a politician known for anti-Semitism and supporter of the extreme right.
He was the deputy-lieutenant of Pest County from 1938 to 1944. From April 1944 he was an
Undersecretary of State for Internal Affairs, and was largely responsible for the deportation of the
Hungarian Jews. He was sentenced to death and executed after the war.
Gyula Gömbös (1886-1936) was an officer in the Hungarian army and a Prime Minister from 1932 to
1936. He re-organized the governing party and tried to introduce a fascist regime in Hungary.
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