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Funk Arie
Funk Lajos
Born in Csökmő in 1920
Perished in Auschwitz in 1944
Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”
Arie became a member of the movement at the beginning of 1940 and in
1941 he joined the Sela Organization within whose framework he went to
a hahshara. After the hahshara was closed, he worked in construction.
Arie gave assistance to refugees arriving in Hungary from Slovakia and
Poland. After Simha Hunwald, one of the movement’s leaders, was
caught with other comrades at the end of February 1942, Arie was also
sent to a detention camp in Garany. He managed to get released and
together with his friend, Judith Scharf (Hartman), he was added to the
tiyul to Romania. Both of them were caught on the train. Judith was
incarcerated in the Mosonyi prison in Budapest and from there deported
to Auschwitz. Arie was taken to the town of Szolnok where the local Jews
and Jews from nearby small towns were concentrated and among them
his family members. In Szolnok Arie was humiliated and tortured in public
and sent with all the Jews to Auschwitz.
Füredi Avri
Füredi István ‘Fábri’
Born in Nyíregyháza in 1922
Fell in battle on 27.3.1948 in Israel
Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”
Avri was an only child. His father was a lawyer and the family was
learned and assimilated. Avri was a member of “Hashomer Hatzair” from
1939. He moved to Budapest in 1941. Within the framework of the
movement Avri was a member of the “Hebrew Circle” whose members’
ambition was to speak Hebrew only. He was a highly cultivated man and
possessed leadership skills. He excelled in the field of music as well. In
1942 with the arrival of refugees from Slovakia, Avri was among the first
to engage in helping them. He was caught with three comrades and sent
to the Garany detention camp. Eventually there were fifteen “Hashomer
Hatzair” activists in this camp.
Avri made aliya in 1946 and was a member of the “Ehad BeMay” garin
within whose framework he stayed in Kibbutz Ma’anit and Kibbutz
Yassur. During the War of Independence he enlisted in the Hagana. He
was sent to escort convoys in the North and to bring the illegal
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