Brothers for Resistance and Rescue 1 - CENDO

Heffner Dézi
Heffner-Reiner Dézi
Born in Budapest on 10.1.1927
Member of “Dror Habonim”
At the age of twelve Dézi was a member of “Maccabi Hatzair” and later
joined the “Habonim” movement. She assisted refugees from Poland who
found a hiding place in her family house on 45, Hársfa Street in Budapest
before moving to another place or leaving for Romania. Dézi obtained
documents from the offices of the Hungarian Population Registry. She
was sent to the Gestapo headquarters in Buda in order to help the
prisoners there. Dézi was also sent to country towns in order to find
hiding places in case there was a need for them. She left Hungary on the
train of the Relief and Rescue Committee to Bergen-Belsen and from
there to Switzerland.
Dézi made aliya and she is a member of Kibbutz Givat Brenner.
Heffner Imre 'Hefi'
Born in Újpest in 1924
Fell in the War of Independence
Member of “Dror Habonim”
Imre joined the movement in 1938. As refugees arrived from Poland and
Slovakia, he gave them assistance. After the German invasion of
Hungary on 19.3.1944, Imre went underground with the other members
of the movement who had not been enlisted in forced labor units. Imre
traveled to the Miskolc ghetto, handed out forged documents to
comrades whom he smuggled into Budapest. In July 1944, he crossed
the border into Romania within the framework of the tiyul and in August of
the same year, he arrived in Eretz Israel (Palestine). Imre was one of the
founders of Kibbutz Ein Zeitim and in 1947 he moved to Kvutzat Kinneret.
He fought in the War of Independence and was killed in the battle for the
Tzemah police station.
Herbst Judith 'Juca'
Weisz Judit
Born in Kökényes (Ternove) on 26.12.1912
Died on 8.12.1974 in Israel
Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”
Judith was active in the movement and the Zionist underground in
Hungary during World War II. She was caught by the Hungarian fascists
and the Gestapo, brutally tortured but did not break and did not reveal
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