Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 1 - CENDO

immigrants from the ships to the shore. He fought in various places in the
North. He fell in the “Yehiam Convoy” on 27.3.1948 with 46 of his friends
as a soldier in battalion 21 of the Carmeli brigade.
Fürszt-Komoly Lea
Born in Veröce (Viroticia) in 1921
Died on 7.12.2006 in Israel
Member of “Maccabea” and “Hatzionim Haclali’im”
Lea’s family returned to Budapest in 1924. Her father, Nathan Komoly,
was the president of the Hungarian Zionist Association from 1940 to
1944, and from 1943 he was the chairman of the Relief and Rescue
Committee. Lea took part in underground help activities from the building
of the Jewish community on 12, Síp Street. She was sent on behalf of her
father on missions with government authorities and foreign legations. Lea
distributed the “Auschwitz Report”, that was translated into various
languages, and which she translated into Hungarian in cooperation with
Sarah Friedlander, including testimonies of what was happening in the
extermination camp. Lea left Hungary on the train of the Relief and
Rescue Committee and arrived in Switzerland. She made aliya in 1946
and married the engineer Fürszt. She worked as a librarian at the Tel-
Aviv University and at “Beit Ariella”. Lea resides in Tel-Aviv.
Futó-Galambos Sándor
Goldstein Sándor
Born in Debrecen in 1909
Died in 1963 in Hungary
Communist
In 1929 Sándor arrived in Antwerpen, Belgium, on his way to South-
America as an emigrant. He remained in Antwerpen and made contact
with the local workers’ movement. In 1931 he was accepted in the
Hungarian section of the communist party in Antwerpen. Sándor was
arrested, imprisoned for a year and deported to Paris. In 1935 he
returned to Belgium, was arrested and sent back to Hungary. Although he
was under police surveillance, he was active in the trade unions and a
member of the social-democrat party. In 1936 he organized volunteers for
the civil war in Spain and operated in the industrial suburbs of the capital.
After the Germans invaded Hungary on 19.3.1944, Sándor served as the
liaison between the central committee of the underground communist
party and the “Hashomer Hatzair” movement. These connections led to
cooperation in the supply of forged documents from the “Hashomer
Hatzair” side, and the finding of shelters for young Jews from the other
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