Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 1 - CENDO

Hadas Shoshanna
Morvai (after her marriage: Vadász) Zsuzsa
Born in Makó on 17.10.1922
Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”
Shoshanna joined the movement in her hometown in 1929. She
graduated from high school in 1940 and travelled to Budapest. In 1941
she stayed in a hahshara. In 1942 Shoshanna gave assistance to
refugees, comrades from the movement that arrived from Slovakia. In
cunning ways she obtained authentic documents for them. Shoshanna
was active in the hostel for youngsters on Zöldmáli Street where young
refugees also found refuge. After the German invasion of Hungary on
19.3.1944, upon her parents’ request, she travelled to see them but was
caught, arrested and taken to the Strasshof camp and from there to
Theresienstadt. After the war Shoshanna returned to Budapest and
worked in a children’s boarding school where Jewish children, who during
the war had found refuge with Christian families or in convents, were
gathered. Shoshanna made aliya in 1950 with her husband Miklós and
her son Gabriel.
Hakohen Hillel
Born in Komárom (Komárno) on 2.5.1925
Died in Israel in 2003
Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”
Hillel joined the movement in 1936 and in 1942 he moved to Budapest.
After the Germans occupied Hungary on 19.3.1944, he and another three
comrades were sent to South Transylvania in order to open a new route
for the tiyul to Romania in the direction of the city of Brassó (Brašov)
beyond the Hungarian border. They were all caught. Hillel was
transferred to Debrecen and put into a wagon whose destination was
Auschwitz. When the train reached Slovakia, he and some of his friends
managed to escape by jumping off the train. Hillel reached the town of
Eperjes (Prešov), made contact with comrades from his movement and
traveled to Bratislava. Ten of Hillel’s comrades who escaped with him
were caught and executed.
In August 1944 the Germans entered Slovakia in order to crush the
rebellion that erupted in the Banská Bystrica area. Hillel Hakohen joined
the partisans and, with the outbreak of the Slovak uprising, fought with
the paratroopers who arrived from Eretz Israel (Palestine) and among
them Haviva Reick.
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