 November 4-5, 1944: Fourth series of meetings between Kasztner, Saly Mayer, Kurt Becher and Roswell McClelland (a representative of the WRB) in St. Gallen and Zurich, Switzerland. November 26, 1944: Becher returns to Budapest from a meeting with Heinrich Himmler. November 28, 1944: Kasztner departs for Switzerland, accompanied by one of Becher’s adjutants, Hauptsturmfuhrer Krell. December 5, 1944: Kasztner and Krell meet with Saly Mayer at the Swiss border. December 7, 1944: The second group of the Kasztner transport, consisting of 1,368 Jews, arrives in Switzerland. December 23, 1944: Budapest is surrounded by Soviet troops; Becher leaves Hungary.
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