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Hőnig Braha 'Bruhi'
Hőnig Borbála
Born in Carpatho-Ruthenia in 1928
Passed away
Member of “Hashomer Hatzair”
Braha arrived in Budapest in 1942 and joined the already outlawed
“Hashomer Hatzair” movement. After the German invasion of Hungary on
19.3.1944, she equipped herself with forged Aryan documents and went
underground. She was a liaison person among the members of the
movement, passed on information about meetings and mainly about the
departure of the tiyul. After the Arrow Cross Party formed the government
on 15.10.1944, together with two of her friends who were her roommates,
Braha safeguarded six suitcases, that contained the equipment of the
forgery workshop, brought to them by David Gur. In 1945, after the
liberation, Braha emigrated to France and studied at university in Paris.
Braha had a tragic death.
Horn Yehuda
Horn Tibor
Born in Budapest on 14.7.1926
Died on 3.4.2000 in Israel
Member of “Hanoar Hatzioni”
On 19.3.1944, when the Germans invaded Hungary, Yehuda was
studying in the Rabbinical Seminary which the Hungarian police turned
into a prisoners’ camp. The students were forced to work in the camp.
Yehuda Horn made contact with the prisoners, passed on information to
their relatives and to various authorities and revealed their location. Many
detainees managed to escape thanks to this information. Horn himself
served in a forced labor unit, escaped and returned to Budapest.
Yehuda made aliya in the 60’s. He worked as an architect and resides in
Jerusalem.
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