Former House Adolf Eichmann

This villa has a troubled past. Shortly after the Germans occupied Hungary in March 1944, SS-Obersturmbahnführer Adolf Eichmann arrived in Budapest with orders to deport Jews from Hungary. After staying at the Astoria Hotel with his men for a few days, he confiscated this villa with a lot of land around it, and lived here until his departure in December 1944.

These deportations and the mass murder that followed were known by the code name “Aktion Höss”. His 150-strong Eichmann-Kommando was responsible for the deportation of some 437,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz between April and July 1944. On 8 July, the transports were halted by Hungary's head of state Miklós Horthy. In October 1944, Horthy's role was over and he was replaced by the facist Ferenc Szalasi after which the deportations and massacres continued again. In the end, some 568,0000 Hungarian Jews were murdered.

When the Russians approached Budapest in December 1944, Eichmann sped back to Germany.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Ferdinand Bovenschen
• - https://www.holocausthistoricalsociety.org.uk/contents/naziseasternempire/testimonybyavrahamgordonattheeichmanntrial.html