In April 1944 Kasztner received in Bratislava, Slovakia the Vrba-Wetzler report and other evidence that Hungary's Jews would be sent to their deaths. The report was later released to the leaders of Jewish organizations in Budapest and elsewhere in the hope that Hungarian Jews would be warned that they were being deported to a death camp and were not being resettled, as they had been led to believe. However, the report was not made public by Kasztner, the Jewish Council (Judenrat) in Hungary or other Jewish organizations.