Kasztner's critics reply that he received SS permission to visit Kolozsvár/Cluj on May 3, 1944 but failed to warn the Jews there despite the fact that Cluj was only from the Romanian border and that the 20,000 Jews there were guarded by only 20 Hungarian gendarmes and an SS officer and could have escaped. They also say that he could have telephoned other Jewish communities but did not and that warnings might have enabled Jews to save their lives through "local uprisings, resistances, escapes, hiding, hiding children with Gentiles, forging documents, paying ransom, bribes" and other means.