Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 1 - CENDO

Goldberger Yaakov
Goldberger Ottó
Born in Kassa (Košice) in 1919
Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”
Yaakov was a member of the “Maccabi” sports association as a pupil,
instructor, manager and gymnast. From 1938 he was among the leaders
of his movement. In 1939 Yaakov moved to Budapest. He was enlisted in
a forced labor unit in the fall of 1940 and released at the end of 1943. On
5.4.1944, after the German invasion, Yaakov was arrested at his
workplace and sent to the military prison on Margit Boulevard. In July of
the same year he was released but was mobilized for forced labor.
Members of his movement equipped him with forged documents and,
with his wife, Miriam, he was smuggled into Romania. Ya'akov and
Miriam took with them six children aged 5-6, refugees from Poland, as
well as two young boys aged seventeen from the Carpatho-Ruthenia
region who did not speak Hungarian.
In November 1944 he made aliya and is a member of Kibbutz Ha’ogen.
Ya'akov was a central figure on the kibbutz and in the Kibbutz Artzi
institutions.
Goldfarb Neshka
Szandel Ágnes
Born in Tiszabogdány (Bohdan) in 1921
Died on 1.2.2000 in Israel
Member of “Dror Habonim”
Neshka came from a religious Jewish family. Her father was a Hasid and
a reader of prayers in the synagogue. She was orphaned at an early age.
Although the Hassidic currents were predominant in the village, Zionism
was not banned. Emissaries from Eretz Israel (Palestine), Mordehai
Caspi and Shlomo Lipsky, set up a ken of “Hehalutz Hatzair” (which later
became “Dror Habonim”) in the village and Neshka, aged fifteen, joined
the movement. She stayed in hahsharot in preparation for her aliya. In
1939 she and her friends in the hahshara were surprised by Hungarian
policemen and taken to Budapest. In the Hungarian capital they were
detained for four days and then sent back to their village. In 1940 Neshka
left the family home again and arrived in Budapest where the Zionist
youth movement was already outlawed. Neshka and her friends lived in a
commune. In 1941 she met Jewish refugees fromPoland and, from them,
Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 109