Editing Michael Dov Weissmandl (section)

===Deportation===
In October 1944, Weissmandl and his family were rounded up and put on a train headed for [[Auschwitz concentration camp|Auschwitz]].<ref name=Paldiel>{{cite book | author = Mordecai Paldiel | title = Saving One's Own — Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust | pages = 118–120 | publisher = University of Nebraska Press | year = 2017}}</ref> Weissmandl escaped from the sealed train by opening a hole with a saw he had secreted in a loaf of bread.<ref name=Paldiel/> He jumped from the moving train and made his way to [[Bratislava]].<ref name=Paldiel/> There he found shelter in a bunker in a storage room of a private house, along with 17 other Jews who included the [[Stropkov|Rebbe of Stropkov]] Menachem Mendel Halberstam.<ref name=Paldiel/>

[[Rezső Kasztner]] visited the bunker several times, once, to the consternation of the inhabitants, in the company of SS officer Max Grüson.<ref name=Paldiel/> In April 1945, Kasztner visited again, this time in the company of another SS officer who took the party to Switzerland in a truck with an escort of German soldiers.<ref name=Paldiel/> On arriving in Switzerland, Weissmandl suffered a major heart attack.<ref name=Paldiel/>